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Pros and Cons. In China there are, according to various estimates, between 300 and 400 million people. By far the greater part of these are unaware of the events which are taking place in the outside world. But among the millions that inhabit the maritime and adjacent provinces or, conveniently, conscious China, it is otherwise. They have felt the effects of foreign domination and foreign exploitation of their resources, and they have resented the presence of aliens whom they believe to be in China solely for their own gain and whom they rightly or wrongly regard as intruders...
Later in the year the explorer went on a long trip in search of the famous, musk ox which inhabit the Polar region and feed on the frozen vegetation which grows in the bare spots of this country. He showed the first moving pictures ever taken of these rare animals, encircled by the Captain's Esquimaux dogs which played hide and seek with them, some times however getting caught on the horns. "I've always wanted to ride a musk-ox," said the speaker, "and I found out what it would be like last spring. We caught a young...
...Yakuts, who inhabit the region bordering on the Lina River, are a tribe whose origin is unknown. They have lived in this vicinity for many centuries, and their primitive civilization and customs differ entirely from most of the other tribes in that neighborhood...
...marine life has been found in water drawn from some of these wells-small crabs, fish and shellfish. They are not blind or otherwise abnormally evolved to meet subterranean conditions, as are some of the animals found in Mammoth Cave. But they belong to normal surface species known to inhabit the lakes of Palestine. The excavators are puzzled, but advance the theory that the whole of North Africa is underlain by a subterranean sea, 300 feet beneath the surface, connected by passageways with bodies of water beyond Suez...
America's scientific elite, gathered at Cincinnati for the 75th anniversary meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, heard and saw fresh miracles of the heavens and earth and the creatures that inhabit them...