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Giving an ad hominem edge to his words, Eanes expressed dismay at the unexpected good showing of Saraiva de Carvalho and warned Portugal's self-styled Fidel Castro not to carry his "campaign of agitation" beyond the election. Saraiva de Carvalho, who will soon face trial for his alleged part in the leftist uprising that Eanes put down last fall, preached "people's power" during the campaign and called for the creation of workers' assemblies that would eventually do away with parliamentary democracy. In the Lisbon industrial belt, particularly in big factory towns like Setubal, Saraiva...
...frightening. Many species lay hundreds or thousands of eggs after each mating. Some pass through their entire life cycles, from egg to adult, in a matter of days or weeks, producing dozens of generations a season. This gives them an enormous evolutionary advantage, as scientists have learned to their dismay. If only a tiny fraction of a species has resistance to a new man-made spray that wipes out the remainder, for example, the few survivors can quickly multiply into a huge insect population with built-in immunity to the insecticide...
...weeks ago, South Carolina's Rutledge wrote privately of his dismay at the New Englanders' "overruling influence in council ?their low cunning, and those levelling principles winch men without character and without fortune in general possess." Virginia's Carter Braxton worried similarly about the "democratical" tendencies of New Englanders. Some men in the north, meantime, scorn the southerners for their dependence on slave labor. In all sections, there persists a powerful streak of Toryism. In the Congress itself are men like Pennsylvania's John Dickinson, who, though not a Tory, held out for reconciliation with England, arguing that...
...Brandeis, in a famous dissent protesting the wiretapping of a bootlegger, sought to establish an individual's right to be let alone. This is a cause that has not gotten very far. Philip Kurland, the distinguished law professor at the University of Chicago, has concluded to his own dismay: "The constitutional right of privacy, in Brandeis' sense of a right to be let alone, will always be a minimal and never a major source in constitutional law." This is due, Kurland emphasized in a recent speech, "in no small part to the public commitment to voyeurism," a commitment...
...dhaman is a yellow-tinted snake, ranging from 4 ft. to 10 ft. in length, that once had the run of the Indian countryside. To the dismay of the Indian Parliament, these are hard times for the dhaman, as well as for the more than 20 other varieties of Indian herpetofauna that prey on, among other things, the domestic brown rat, known as Rattus rattus. Thanks in part to commerce, which values the hide of a snake more than that of a rat, the rodents have been winning the battle against their deadliest enemy. Two weeks ago, India...