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...patterns and lifted its veil with a radar beacon, mapping 93% of Venus' shrouded surface. Though the planet has continent-size land masses topped by a mountain a mile higher than Everest, it does not seem to be rent by the earth's major mountain builder: continental drift. Rather, the key tectonic process appears to be volcanism, accompanied by lightning, flows of lava and an otherworldly version of earthquakes...
...stops, four men of assorted ages have jumped out, driven two stakes into the grass and started pitching horseshoes. People drag aluminum chairs and cases of beer out of the backs of their cars and lug them over to the lawn that faces the bandstand. Encouraging smells begin to drift from the beef barbecue pit. The day's first Frisbee frizzes across the gray sky. Warmup musicians, two men and a woman of a group called Bluebird, plug in their guitars. Here in Rutland, the Grand Old-Time Fiddlin' Contest is gathering momentum...
...homeowners that make up the traditional CCA--have become well-organized and increasingly politically powerful. David Sullivan can claim credit for much of that transformation; he will reap the fruits of it tomorrow with a strong showing. But the new power means the CCA will not be allowed to drift slowly to the right. If it does, tenants will increasingly distance themselves from it--there will be more Wendy Abts...
...reducing the work week to 35 hours. The leftist press too has begun to be concerned that Mitterrand's ideological commitments may be getting more of his attention than the harsh realities of a troubled economy. "These first 120 days have too often left an impression of drift and improvisation," the pro-Socialist daily Le Matin editorialized. "We are waiting for the head of state to focus on the priority of priorities: overcoming the economic crisis...
Dixon assumes the continents will continue to drift, eventually creating a world that will be far different from today's. Africa, Eurasia, Australia and North America will come together to form a giant continent with new climates and ecosystems; South America will become a huge island. Once man has succeeded in overpopulating the planet and exhausting its resources, as he now seems bent on doing, he will have assured not only his own extinction but that of the species that depend upon him for existence: domestic cattle, for example. Man's departure, concludes Dixon, will allow "evolution...