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...life has bred in her a hard pride easily taken for snobbery. A foreigner feels it quickly, for like many Sabras, she is reserved toward strangers. Her quiet, brown eyes can fix a newcomer, penetrate and turn away with cruel coldness...
...prospect has endlessly occupied-and eluded-the inquiring human mind. If the species could be sensibly subdivided into races, then the races could be measured one against another, could be assigned proper places in the hierarchy of mankind. Cultural and geographical isolation, occurring over numberless millennia, could conceivably have bred peoples of widely differing physical and intellectual capacity. And taking Western technological man as the norm, it could be possible, given the right tools, to compare his performance against those of all the other human varieties...
...lately a professor of international studies in Geneva, contends in this cool, dispassionate study that the cold war was every bit as climactic and dramatic a power struggle as those bloody predecessors. What's more, says Halle, the cold war is over, though the conditions of conflict that bred it continue...
...start on badly needed adult payrolls. Watkins linked jobs with community improvement and got money to spend on all three projects. He also persuaded the Los Angeles city government to let him plant vegetable gardens along water-main rights of way in the widely ducted conurbation, putting farm-bred Southern migrants to work for pay at the only jobs they know well...
...Along the shore, trees and plants were steeped in 30 ft. of the river's opaque water. As the Alpha Helix moved along looking for a landing site, Williams noticed that there were astonishingly few insects, though they are maddeningly plentiful along the Amazon's clear, mountain-bred tributaries...