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When the two new satellites were launched last May, NASA hailed them as the latest example of space-age technology benefiting life on earth. One satellite, dubbed AT56 (for Applications Technology Satellite), is relaying educational TV programs to remote regions; the other, SM51 (Synchronous Meteorological Satellite), is a new breed of weather satellite equipped with infrared cameras that can shoot remarkably detailed cloud pictures even at night...
Among the top Nazis, Heinrich Himmler was the leading racial fanatic. As Reichsfuhrer and SS chief, he personally set up the Lebensborn (Fountain of Life) program in 1935 to turn the German population into a superrace through selective breeding. Thousands of carefully selected German women were encouraged to have intercourse with SS men, who were presumed to be among the racial as well as the political elite. Once pregnant, the women were signed into one of twelve special maternity centers, where they received lavish medical and personal care. When one of his "new breed" babies got sick, Himmler would fret...
...used the rich oil and gas revenues of King Ranch's Texas spread (roughly the size of Rhode Island) to subsidize his first love, ranching, and his hobby, racing horses (among them Assault, 1946 Triple Crown winner). When drought threatened the King herds in 1917, Kleberg painstakingly began breeding Indian Brahman bulls with Texas shorthorns to produce a new and hardy breed, the Santa Gertrudis; their toughness enabled him to expand to such forbidding pastures as the Brazil ian jungle, Australia's outback and the plains of Morocco. Well into his 70s, the gauntly handsome, gimlet-eyed centimillionaire...
...Jazz Is Our Religion. Jeremy's 1970 film supports Bland's thesis that even when a black musician plays from his roots he blows his soul "through a white man's machine." But the work is most notable for some fine stills of the conditions and communities that breed jazz as well as a scattering of poetic jazz talk by Langston Hughes...
Genovese's treatment of the slaves' system of beliefs--a new breed of Christianity, fusing African and European religious traditions--is even more central to his book, studded as it is with quotations from the Bible and slave spirituals. Genovese argues that Christianity let the slaves maintain their dignity as people, and refuse the temptation to hate their individual masters instead of the class system that included good and bad masters alike...