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...stripped vast areas of Hidalgo and San Luis Potosi states almost bare of fragile and beautiful species. As a result, nearly 30 kinds are considered virtually extinct in Mexico, and 250 more are imperiled. Some choice species that sell for a few dollars each south of the border may fetch $50 or $60 at a Los Angeles nursery. Texas has no state law prohibiting the harvesting of cacti. While national preserves like the huge (1,100 sq. mi.) Big Bend National Park are protected by federal law, they are nonetheless havens for botanical bootleggers. "We don't know...
...maximum price under controls of $1.60 to $1.90 per thousand cu. ft. in 1985. Gas discovered in subsequent years can be sold at higher prices, reaching a projected maximum of about $4.54 per thousand cu. ft. at the wellhead in 1985. From that date onward, any additional discoveries will fetch the prevailing world market price...
...novel opens with some apparently random letters from Freud and an associate, then shifts to a 13-page poem that reads like a dream fugue of eroticism and premonitions of doom. A woman and a faceless lover fetch up at "a white lakeside hotel" and make love incessantly and imaginatively. Meanwhile, other guests drown when a pleasure boat on the lake goes down in a sudden high wind; a wing of the hotel burns to the ground, killing many others. The poem is followed by an expanded prose version of the same fantasy. This time the woman's lover...
...sign that says "Drunkard" draped around his neck--this is the tale of a decent, confused lad, whose body is "a tent of exile" from society. Scolded by his mother for his idleness. Aladdin is dispatched by a wicked magician to an enchanted cave, where he is to fetch a magic lamp. Aladdin winds up hanging onto the lamp, using its genie to help win the hand of a Sultan's beautiful daughter. The magician, of course, steals the lamp, along with the Princess...
...with the faces of monsters in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye belongs more to tomorrow than today, as it has for the past half-century. Jackson Pollock is still a puzzle to many people, who appreciate only the fancy prices his paintings now fetch. That lack of understanding is what makes this eight-part BBC series on 20th century art so valuable: it does not tell us where we are going, but it does tell us where we have been...