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Confidence operators and petty thieves traditionally prey on dormitory dwellers. The fall's bumper-crop of returning students is a god-send to rip-off artists. The situation is most dangerous in freshman dorms, where residents are apt to leave their doors open as they journey to communal bathrooms...
...present development plans, that will probably be an accomplished fact by the middle of the next century. Another drawback is that the topsoil of the Amazon region is thin, and the jungle, contrary to popular belief, does not reclaim cleared land that has been depleted. Unless modern techniques of crop rotation and fertilization are used -techniques few of the impoverished colonists know-nutrients could be washed away a few years after the land is cleared, turning it into a desolate wasteland where only scrub brush would grow. "We honestly don't know what is going to happen...
After Mellaart's discoveries in the late 1950s, there was a surge into the market of "Hacilar" artifacts that some archaeologists attributed to illicit excavating in the area. But doubts about the authenticity of some of the "Hacilar" material began to crop up in 1965, when the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford bought a two-headed ceramic vase on the London antiquities market. The style was distinctively that of Hacilar; but at the same time, at least three similar vases were sold for as much as $7,200 to collections in Europe and America. This coincidence, combined with several...
...Miss America Pageant. Criticized as lily-white by civil rights groups, demonstrated against by Women's Lib, condescended to by intellectuals and the New York Times (which has been known to spare two paragraphs deep inside to report the winner), Miss America annually blooms like a crop of late summer corn. The second Saturday night in September always finds more than 60 million televiewers tuning in as, live from Atlantic City, Bert Parks opens the last envelope, milks the last drop of suspense, announces the winner and launches the pageant's theme song: There...
...sorts of seemingly minor problems, such as a white parent's lack of experience in combing a black child's kinky hair ("There's just no way to do it gently," says Urban Planner Thomas Nutt). Another danger: stereotyped ideas of black intelligence that may crop up when an adopted child is the only black in his school and neither his teacher nor his classmates expect him to do well. Both blacks and whites are wary of civil rights crusaders willing to sacrifice a child to prove a point or to promote integration. "A child should...