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...most Egyptians the Nile still rules, and a peasant from pharaonic days would find life little altered along much of the riverbank today: land is still divided into tiny plots, and the precious water is still raised from the river by having a cow or blind-folded water buffalo turn a primitive screw or a crude wooden lift balanced by a weight of mud. The ordinary meal of an Egyptian fellah still consists of foul beans; moulekieh, a soup made of the greens that grow among cotton plants, is a dish reserved for special days...
...traded in his law books for the accoutrements of drug smuggling. Studded with the usual bizarre quotations and extravagant graphics, Thompson's piece ends with a series of burned-out ruminations on the unseen forces in American society that coalesced to wreak havoc on this self-styled Brown Buffalo. While the article makes precious little sense, it does at least furnish an appreciated respite from the self-congratulation filling most of the other pages in the issue...
...journalists, educators and magicians (who can best spot the sleight-of-hand and other tricks used by psychics), the committee's goal is to rebut what Author Charles Fair calls "the New Nonsense." Headed by Paul Kurtz, a philosophy professor at the State University of New York in Buffalo, the committee includes such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, Psychologist B.F. Skinner, Philosopher Sidney Hook, Author Isaac Asimov...
...busy executive may, in the course of a day, have to put in a call or write to city hall in San Francisco. Or, on behalf of an errant salesman, reach a bail-bond outfit in Buffalo. Or a Toledo TV station. Or the Manufactured Housing Institute. Or HEW in Atlanta, or EPA in Boston, or a bus terminal in Minneapolis...
...more conventional liberal. It was the third successive mayoralty defeat for the once mighty Pittsburgh machine. In Cleveland, scrappy Dennis Kucinich, 31, a former three-term city councilman, edged out Edward Feighan, 30, the candidate of the regular Democratic organization, and promised a thorough housecleaning at city hall. In Buffalo, State Senator James Griffin, who had lost the Democratic primary for mayor, bolted the party and joined the Conservatives. He won the election with 42% of the vote in a six-man race...