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...conservative and liberals alike, the UNESCO pull-out discussions has by now reclared a good deal of built-up frustration with Third World Yanbre-go-home idelogies. This leads to some rahter enjoyable rhetoric. For example, Owen Harries of the Heritage Foundation says UNESCO...
Hiroshima had once harbored 344,000 people. Reconnaissance photographs showed 4.1 square miles-60% of the city's built-up area-destroyed by fire and blast. There was no crater in which the blast effect would have been largely wasted; the bomb had exploded well above ground. How many tens of thousands of Hiroshima's people had perished was not yet and might never be known...
Higher education's painfully built-up reputation as a process offering an unusual degree of equal access to all classes has thus been dealt a severe philosophical blow. And as the cuts and rising costs force school after school to abandon publicly their idealistic aid-blind policies, a vicious cycle of cuts and retrenchment is fueled...
...There, inside the barbed wire, I came across this gift for sharing the happiness of others. I had always noticed that people's faces light up when they are watching some little wild animal that has strayed into a built-up area. How their faces are transformed...
...China, or at least providing her with peaceful technology, which--surprise, surprise--she later converts to military uses, it was only a little while ago that the yellow peril was more feared than the Red menace. Who knows if the alliances won't shift once more, and a militarily built-up China will prove more threatening than the Soviets no appear...