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...towns yet. Attracted by the concentration of scientific and technical brains in the Boston area, the electronics industry has brought an economic revival to many Massachusetts towns stricken by loss of textile plants. The highways that cripple some small towns can help others; many a little town, rescued from decay by a new highway, now makes a living catering to motorists instead of farmers or miners. And highways often make it possible for residents of a small town to get to and from new jobs in another, larger town. A few years ago, Adams, Mass., appeared to be doomed...
...that is the descendant of iodine 129, a radioactive form of iodine that was created with the rest of the elements that formed the solar nebula and became extinct not many million years later. Since chondrules contain xenon 129, Merrihue argues that they must have acquired it from the decay of iodine 129. This means that they condensed as droplets during the infancy of the solar system, when everything else in the nebula was dust or gas-and they must be older than the earth...
...need to love? The camera wonders as it wanders through the city. Change and decay, Antonioni seems to say, in all around I see. A nurse wheels a baby carriage down a street. An old man watches it with haunted eyes. Headlines threaten atomic destruction. Water leaks from a barrel, runs into a sewer and is seen no more. In a park a fountain suddenly fails. The day fails. In the darkness a single street lamp burns, far away and cold. Then suddenly the lamp burns in the center of the screen, immense and pulsing, urgent, the light of life...
...final chapter that judges Kafka against Camus (unfairly, and at Camus's great expense), he notes the obvious distinctions in the work of two writers often compared: what Camus says in Olympian detachment, Kafka says in nervous excitement ; where Camus needs crisis to show man's decay, Kafka is content with indolence; in Camus the characters are absurd, but in Kafka it is the universe...
...desert and steppe, lying between Russian Siberia and Red China, Outer Mongolia first showed its loyalty to Moscow by roundly condemning China's stooge, Albania. The Mongols went much farther last year, when Luvsantserengiin Tsende, the No. 2 Communist, charged that the "deep moral decay of the Chinese Communist Party" was evidenced by Peking's "groundless and malicious attacks on the Leninist party and the Soviet Union." In taking a hard line against Peking, Outer Mongolia was taking desperate chances, since its territory is surrounded on three sides...