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...dissidents have misused their right to speak out. We oppose this form of dissent-and suggest that those students who have taken this approach consider alternative means for furthering their cause. This statement does not endorse the contents of the article of Professor Herrnstein's CRR complaint. Deborah Heartland Sam Anderson and 95 students...
...wreckage of the Barbary Coast grew a city sophisticated by disaster, as elegant and corrupt as the lost metropolises of the East. Others, wandering into the rich central valleys just off the coast, felt an echo of what was lost to them--the fertile plains of the nation's heartland. They scooped up the dark loamy earth, letting it run through their fingers, they drew deep lungfuls of the jasmine-scented air, they looked long on the green velvet of the hills, the gold velvet of the fields, and they stayed to farm. Still others bitterly surveyed the salty flats...
...site standing in the possible path of the bulldozers. What the archaeologists found there exceeded their most extravagant expectations. For the first time in more than half a century, diggers uncovered an unlooted royal tomb of the fabled Scythian tribesmen who roamed and ruled great areas of the Russian heartland more than 2,000 years...
...year corn blight, which destroyed 15% of the nation's corn harvest, rotted black much of Grotefendt's planting. Farmers feared that the virulent fungus might ruin up to half the crop this summer. Yet last week, a mood of quiet satisfaction was evident across the U.S. heartland as farmers began bringing in one of the most bountiful harvests in history...
Glorious Spontaneity. Between ocean and mountain stretches the broad, featureless plain whose uninspired development Banham calls "Anywheresville/ Nowheresville." But soon freeways stamped man's imprint on this heartland too. Each great road had the potential to become "a work of art, both as a pattern on the map, as a monument against the sky, and as a kinetic experience." Of course, the roads bred more cars, and cars bred what Banham calls "a coherent state of mind." One symptom: the emphasis on driving everywhere, a "willing acquiescence in an incredibly demanding man/machine system." Another: the customized...