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...drops when the excitement is over. But according to one theory, in many the level drops by smaller increments, eventually stabilizing at a higher level than before. Significant increases in blood pressure were recorded among Russians who survived the siege of Leningrad and Texans who survived the Galveston Harbor holocaust in 1970. Similar increases might well be found among people concerned by the current economic situation. A study has revealed that men facing the loss of their jobs experienced increases in blood pressure that lasted through the period of unemployment and did not drop until they found work again...
...Hello out there-Earth, can you read us?" Silence. There may not be anyone to receive a return message from Messier 13 unless something is done to halt the present ecological holocaust...
Potential Holocaust. That practice seems to contradict Smokey the Bear's highly publicized advice to extinguish all fires. But Smokey is no ecologist; he is not aware that natural-as opposed to man-made-fires are good for forests. They clear patches of land for new generations of trees. Far from depriving animals of food, the fires make way for a prodigious growth of succulent sprouts. Moreover, they eliminate accumulated deadwood and underbrush -the fuel for more dangerous holocausts. All in all, says Dick Riegelhuth, chief of resources management at Yosemite National Park in California: "It is ridiculous that...
...rosters for such trips: a cool demolition expert (Richard Harris), his good-humored sidekick (David Hemmings), a terse, harried Scotland Yard operative (the excellent Anthony Hopkins), and an unflappable ship's captain who keeps his turmoil to himself (Omar Sharif). It is usually clear in these hairbreadth holocaust excursions exactly how they are going to turn out. The object is to obscure the inevitable, an exercise that Lester performs with great skill...
...America, he had nothing except a vague connection to the land. It was unhealthy, he suspected, to live at the center of the world. Once in America, only America exists.....All those mountains and rivers, the deserts and the snow, the ghosts of buffalo and the threats of holocaust. Perhaps--this bothered him--Greece had been something like this in her heyday. Perhaps the peace he felt there now was the peace of powerlessness. Problems had assumed human proportions again. People laughed and shrugged. They cared but they didn't worry. The sea and the marble and pines calmed...