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...increasing energy shortage and escalating costs, the spectacle of a forest of suburban windmills might become as attractive for some people as Dutch windmills in a Rembrandt landscape. And the sound of a steadily humming windmill down the street could eventually prove to be the sweetest music that you could hear...
United Air Lines President Percy Wood last month received, at his Lake Forest, Ill., home, a gift in the mail from an unknown admirer. After ripping open the package, he awkwardly pulled the book it contained out, away from his body. That move probably saved his life. Inside the hollowed-out copy of Sloan Wilson's novel Ice Brothers was a spring-activated pipe bomb filled with explosive black powder and pieces of shrapnel. Because the bomb exploded a few feet away, Wood survived, though suffering heavy lacerations on his legs and chest...
...sunny day in Africa 10 million years ago, give or take a few million, Mr. and Mrs. Ramapithecus and their children were out foraging for food. Like their primate cousins in the forest, they usually swung gracefully from limb to limb searching out nuts, fruits and berries. But this day was different. A fierce rainstorm had knocked all their favorites off the branches, and the Ramas, alas, were forced to descend from the trees to find something...
...forest was too far off for a dash to safety. So, in an inspired gesture, Ramapithecus reached for a rock with both forefeet, reared back on his hind legs and heaved the stone at the predator. Startled to see this usually four-footed prey erect, the tiger cautiously retreated. But the ape-man's triumph was costly. Unaccustomed to the abrupt, upright position, he was left doubled over in agony with a piercing pain in his lower back...
...reality rarely torments mellower cultures-life is one thing and rhetoric another, and it takes a literal-minded innocent to be deviled by the discrepancy. But Americans often somehow held to the fierce, insistent innocence of their myth even when they penetrated to the deeper parts of the forest, regions of dense moral distress, ambiguity and, in the darkest places, tragedy. In his almost spookily prescient 1955 novel about Viet Nam, The Quiet American, Graham Greene remarked that their innocence makes Americans the most dangerous people in the world...