Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Biochemist David Gutnick, Rosenberg isolated a genus of bacteria called arthrobacter, which feast on crude oil, and then developed a particularly fast-multiplying new strain, which they named "RAG-1."* Bred in salt water enriched with phosphorus and nitrogen compounds, the strain gobbles up the paraffin (waxy) content of crude oil, leaving only small droplets of dewaxed oil that break down quickly in nature and become harmless carbon dioxide and water...
That face has not come across everywhere, of course. Scandinavia, with its costly welfarism, seems to have pulled out of the market for radical solutions, at least temporarily. Britain, for its part, still seems content to be the country in which Marx is buried. Cambridge University's debating society next fall will discuss "Is Marxism Dead?" The Marxist resurrection seems to be confined mainly to Western Europe's three most populous states...
...told Nixon. But he also emphasized that detailed, practical discussions were more important than enunciation of outlines and principles. "What matters now is what is in the bottle," said a top-ranking West German official. "We should now not concentrate on the label but on the content. When we know what's in the bottle, we can put the label...
North Sea oil is low in sulfur content, and thus relatively nonpolluting. More important, it lies on Western Europe's doorstep; British Petroleum's "Forties" field (see map) is only 115 miles off the Scottish coast. By contrast, much Persian Gulf oil must now be hauled 11,000 miles by tanker around Africa before it reaches Europe. Fuel from the North Sea promises to supply 10% to 15% of Europe's energy needs by 1980-not enough to materially reduce dependence on the Mideast, but perhaps sufficient to enable the Continent to survive a brief shutoff...
...this fruitless ambiguity is made worse by the realistic tone of the narration, which is totally at odds with the content. George Orwell persuades us easily in Animal Farm that beasts talk, but Berger fails to establish a mood in which it is believable that larger and stronger men cower before swaggering women, and that an entire society has lost all knowledge of normal...