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...first thing one senses is that the Israeli race to dig in is over. Only once, beside the Suez Canal, did I see earth movers working in a cluster, bolstering causeways that already looked forbiddingly high. Elsewhere, telephone and electric lines are in place, water pipes are underground. Fences and electronic gear do sentry duty; few military vehicles or troops are noticeable. But they are there. "We've got everything we need," said an officer in a forward post. "One shell and I'll be ready to make war in three minutes, maybe less...
...will be gone by 2035, about 90% of all coal by 2300. Before that doomsday comes, most experts believe, technology can provide alternate sources of power, notably through nuclear energy. In the meantime, however, fuel supplies are al ready becoming scarcer, harder to dig out and thus more expensive. The focal point of this energy crisis-the point at which demand is growing fastest and threatening most immediately to out strip available supplies-is in electric power, which is largely derived from fossil fuels (oil, coal...
...enrollment, to 95,292, added three new campuses and three medical schools, and attracted not only a stellar faculty but millions of dollars in research grants. "Those were the years the cookie jar was open," says U.C. Riverside Vice Chancellor Carlo Golino. "All you had to do was dig in and pull out a new laboratory." Toward the end of that decade, however, student turmoil spread from Berkeley to other California campuses-caused in part by youthful dissatisfaction over the rapid growth of the mega-university -and then came the recession, bringing harder times to many of the nation...
...Mother's life seems just as fantastic to me as it must to everyone else," said Elizabeth Taylor's son, Michael Wilding, 19. "I really don't want any part of it. I just don't dig all those diamonds and things. I haven't seen my mother for several months, but she's always welcome here if she wants to come, of course." "Here" is a farmhouse on twelve acres in Wales, where Michael, having abandoned the $78,000 mansion that his mother gave him, now lives in a commune with Wife Beth...
...Nazi citizens in Siegfried Lenz's fine novel. The German Lesson, are not fear-crazed automatons. They are men and women who eat herring, talk gossip, wash dishes and dig ditches. In decent times they would be called decent people. Their tragedy is their loss of contact with life. They live according to ideals, according to banal principles of duty, work, honor. When the world turns ugly and nobility of duty becomes complicity in murder, they never notice...