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...There is too much "suggested or demonstrated action that would be forbidden at home . . . Destroying public property, shooting Seltzer water and throwing things at each other...
...inherent safeguards that can be put into a reactor," said Teller, ". . . it is important to emphasize . . . the public hazard that might follow a reactor accident . . . [Because of leaking radiation] it may be necessary to evacuate a large city, to abandon a watershed and . . . make the reactor site itself a forbidden area for years to come...
Inside the four-mile square of Tartar City rose the pavilion-studded Imperial City, and, inside that, the Forbidden City. Yung Lo scooped out portions of the Imperial City to make the Pool of Great Fertilizing Spume, used the excavated earth to build Coal Hill as a protection for the palace against zephyrs from evil spirits of the North. Fed by Golden Water River flowing from Jade Fountain, the pool was actually a necklace of three lakes named North, Middle and South...
From the West Flowery Gate to the Well of the Pearl Concubine, the Forbidden City is crammed with a sequence of halls, austere courtyards, and a garland of delicate gardens. Here emperors strutted on stiltlike shoes, empresses basked under peacock fans, concubines lustered their hair with elephant dung, and eunuchs plotted palace intrigues...
Warrens. Today China's new rulers have taken over the Forbidden City (see color pages). They populate the nearby Hall of Political Diligence and have ensconced their National People's Congress in the Hall of Magnanimity...