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...revenues almost as fast as they come in, Kuwait long ago decided to save for the future. So successful has the effort been that for some years before Saddam's perfidy, Kuwait was reaping more yearly income from its overseas investments than from the sale and marketing of its crude oil and refined products...
After quickly tracing the development of life from the first crude cells (which cry "Free! *&#! We're free!" as they "colonize the open ocean") to the first primates, Gonick moves on to early pre-history in volume two, "Sticks and Stones. Homo Erectus, Neanderthal and the more advanced Cro-Magnon human of the Stone Age give way to the Homo Sapiens of the first post-ice age settlements of 12,000 years ago. Volume two ends with the founding of cities in Sumer, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq. Four billion years in 100 pages...
...sent to the gulf, and virtually all the German hostages returned from Iraq two weeks ago. There have been only minor antiwar demonstrations. Fuel-price increases have failed to stimulate debate: long before the current crisis, Bonn imposed heavy gasoline taxes to encourage conservation; thus higher costs for crude only marginally affected German pump prices, which run in excess...
...Japan a few voices in the press have pointed out that the crisis gave Tokyo the opportunity to come up with dramatic foreign policy initiatives. But despite the danger to oil supplies, critical for a country that imports virtually all its crude, the public considers the gulf too far away to be a threat. Japan has pledged $4 billion to the coalition -- an amount that, U.S. critics note, is far less than the $6 billion Matsushita paid last week to acquire...
...controversial Helms ad showed a white hand crumpling a rejection slip. "You needed that job, and you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. Is that really fair?" That is, at the very least, a crude description of how affirmative action works. But simple mathematics dictates that every job gained by a black or a woman through such efforts is a job lost by a white or a man. Whether that is "fair" depends on knowing the unknowable: whether, without all past and present discrimination, a black...