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...they inhabit is a bulging bundle of nerves, a webwork of highways that crisscross for 220,000 miles in all directions, including ever-higher altitudes. Moreover, the dawn of the commercial jet age - with 94 jet transports already in U.S. airline service, and about 150 more due by year's end - with its near sonic speeds and bigger loads, has compounded all of the vast problems of the Air Age with unparalleled force...
...running competition to see which one of them can make life in the homeland seem the most disagreeable. Certainly England has seldom seemed more tired and futile than it does in The Center of the Green, a novel edged with style and talent but filled with characters who inhabit separate islands of despair...
Currents for Tuna. Main target was tuna, a surface fish that is usually found far from land and therefore is not claimed as the property of any nation. Japanese scientists found that the different species of tuna inhabit different ocean currents. So the bureau's ships started at known tuna-fishing grounds and followed the currents. At intervals they fed out buoyed lines. Usually they caught little or nothing; most of the vast ocean is poor in fish. Then, suddenly, the water would come alive with tuna. Hungry Japan acquired another source of food...
...humanist faith of the past. This "belief-system, framework of values, ideology, call it what you will," said Huxley, will have "no need or room for the supernatural." It will be evolutionary, because "the earth was not created, it evolved. So did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, including our human selves, mind and soul as well as brain and body...
...Pakistan Prime Minister two years ago, Pakistani readers learned that he had been presented with a "Bharati" blanket by a Navajo girl. A translation of John Steinbeck's The Red Pony called the American Indians in the story "Pak-Bharatis," meaning the kind of people that used to inhabit India together...