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...danger is compounded because the eucalyptus continually sheds both its thin bark-which hangs from the upper portions of the tree in long, tendril-like strands-and its leaves. Together, bark and leaves form a thick and highly combustible layer of "duff" on the forest floor. The increased fall from dead and dying trees has now piled up to depths of 12 in. to 18 in. in some areas; there, the ground is covered by as much as 50 tons of debris per acre. In strong winds on a hot day, the duff could burn so furiously that huge updrafts...
...where he first committed himself to Christ. He now says he was not forcibly abducted by his father but went along willingly. "When I left Yale," he says, "I was a zombie. I had a shell around me. What the deprogrammers did was like unwrapping a mummy, taking off layer after layer of hardness, of the fear that they would destroy me or send me away...
...would indeed be tragic if the humane gains were stifled by an intervening layer of rule-making bureaucrats. But the major point about due process is that its central concern is fairness, not form. Thus it is not inconceivable that some day the concept could be used against hearings, on the ground that they have become an unconstitutional impediment to fairness. For the moment, though, the courts see hearings as a new and crucial element in the effort to extend justice into ever more areas of U.S. life. Americans can hardly quarrel with that perception...
...Magenta, (named after the College color, it underwent a change in nomenclature in December 1875, when the College went crimson) at first could not be recognized as what we would call a newspaper today. It appeared biweekly, a thin layer of editorial content surrounded by an even thinner wrapper of advertising. To many, it must have seemed superflous: The Advocate already fulfilled the College's need for reading matter. Why bring out yet another publication...
UNFORTUNATELY, the book begins better than it ends. Greeley is best when he's dissecting the flaws of anti-ideological, anti-religious ideologues. He is also very much to the point in insisting that beneath atomized mass society exists a layer of Gemeinschafl communities which en-compass the whole human being and not just this or that functional part. And he insists that such communities, far from being the reactionary enclaves which some liberals say they are, could become forces for social change...