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Today, the Indians on the Pine Ridge reservation are still demoralized. The reservation, which occupies 2500 square miles, stands as one of the most impoverished areas in the country. Only a few houses dot the otherwise desolate landscape, and less Indians inhabit the land now than lived...
...Wooing Lady Anne across the corpse of her father-in-law, whom he has murdered, the Pacino Richard becomes the archetypal Latin lover, a superior Rudolph Valentino with sound. Playing off against his brother Edward IV-prim in gray double-breasted suit with pink button-down shirt and polka-dot tie-he cuts up like a sinister baggy-pants clown. Cornered on the battlefield where he is about to lose his crown and his life, waving the royal dagger like a switchblade, he turns into pure street fighter...
Unlike the reusable (and breakable) glass thermometer, the new product looks something like a Band-Aid. It is a short, thin strip of plastic-coated aluminum printed with a series of numbers from 96° to 104°. Next to every number is a row of five small dots representing gradations of two-tenths of a degree, and each dot contains a different chemical formulation, which reacts and turns blue at a precise temperature. When placed in the mouth for 30 seconds, v. three minutes for a conventional thermometer, the device shows a progression of blue dots until the person...
...most visible sign of progress is the proliferation of new sewage-treatment plants, each branded with blue-and-white "clean water" emblems, that dot the shore line. To build them takes money, and it has been forthcoming. San Diego alone has spent $51 million since 1960 to scrub its wastes. Moreover, the sludge does not end up in the ocean but goes back to the land, fertilizing flower beds and lush recreational facilities. Yet even this model scheme is not enough to satisfy the new fervor for clean water. California's water resources control board has adopted a plan...
...chintzy blue polyester tie, thick glasses and a gold expansion watch band. In that garb, he was able to get only twelve secretaries out of 50 to go to the files for him. Later, in an "upper-middle-class" outfit-styled hair, expensive blue suit, beige shirt, silk polka-dot tie and brown cordovan shoes-he visited 50 more secretaries. This time, 42 of the 50 did as they were bade...