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...their duty is to give to the community what they can," says Tito. Most students scorn Tito's voluntary "youth brigades" for road building, and they duck army service as long as possible by taking an average of seven years to complete a five-year university course. Many drift into the gangs of delinquents who make a living scalping sports tickets or stealing parts from parked automobiles. They join the Communist Party, if at all, out of a desire to get ahead...
Congress will be reluctant to authorize long-term loans and to relinquish its own year-to-year grasp on the purse strings. "If we don't get it," said the President at his press conference, "I think we'll continue to see some of the drift we've seen in these programs in the past...
...anchor cables extending sideways. Such cables hang in curves and would yield too much to changes of pull from winds and currents. Much more promising is the active system of keeping the ship accurately over the hole by means of propellers pushing it back whenever it starts to drift away from the center of a pattern of tightly moored surface and submarine buoys...
...Africa. One theory is that a 19th century missionary imported it to ornament a pond. The fern's hairy, half-inch-long leaves grow in pairs on a slender stem. Each broken-off bit of stem can start a new colony. Great islands of weed drift around Kariba Lake, entangling boats and clogging harbors. Fishery experts had been counting on Kariba to support an important fishing industry, as other African lakes do, but under Salvinia's thick floating mats the water contains too little food or oxygen to sustain fish...
...enjoy him forever." No Christian will quibble with that. One may, however, argue heatedly over, or reject totally, the basic assumption that the pop culture-bestsellers, TV shows, advice to the lovelorn columns, cartoons, comic strips, dialogues with taxi drivers-constitutes the best method for judging the drift and destiny of a civilization. No one judges Greece and Rome that way-there is no reason to believe that the hoi polloi in 5th century B.C. Athens knew any more about Euripides than an average TV watcher knows about T. S. Eliot. In this, as in other matters, Author Fitch...