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Most of the milpas are very rocky, with white stones everywhere in the black earth. The Indians hoe around the rocks and around the corn, deft and sure in upturning the green, prolific weeds within a fraction of an inch of the corn shoots--never uprooting the corn, never cutting through the bean plants or squash vines they grow with the corn...
...Soviet territory. And in straight trade deals with the new rulers of the Chinese mainland, the Russians forced their comrades to pay top prices for Soviet and satellite products, ranging from trucks to saccharin, when the same Western-made goods were available in Hong Kong at a fraction of the cost...
...Studied Art. Even then, the government gets only a fraction of them. Ducking taxes is an honored institution and a studied art. In some countries, less than half the qualified taxpayers even file a return. Many self-employed professional men keep no records of income; businessmen often keep two sets of books. Brazilian tax experts estimate that Rio de Janeiro's merchants alone cheated the government out of $1.9 million last year. Out in the country, big landholders drive off revenooers at gunpoint, never pay a cruzeiro. According to the taxmen in Buenos Aires last week, if all Latin...
...personal satisfactions to be gained by the lawyer who works on the great unsolved problems of the twentieth century, says Griswold. But the openings must be available. "If we had Institutes of Law functioning at various places in the country, employing a sizable number of lawyers--though only a fraction of the number of persons engaged in research in the natural sciences and in medicine--we would not only provide an outlet for the idealism which many of our students bring to law school, but we would also bring about a significant change in the orientation of our legal instruction...
...misapplied) physics, the ugly implications of the Soviet resumption of nuclear testing still made the splashiest news of the week. It took physicists themselves to appreciate the larger implications of a much quieter announcement: the discovery of the omega, a new subatomic particle that exists for an infinitesimal fraction of time on the strange borderline between matter and energy. The track of the evanescent omega may some day lead scientists toward a new level of physical understanding...