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...going to be hot." Sometimes it is uncanny how hot the subject can be. A pamphlet entitled "U.S. Prisons: Schools for Crime" was published in September 1971, just two weeks before the Attica revolt. Other timely topics have been impeachment and women's liberation, as well as lighter subjects like "body language" and the Beatles' lyrics. After describing a bloodless coup in Bolivia, one pamphlet suggested that students analyze the power structure of their schools as if they were going to stage a coup of their...
...that fascinating, and at least one--a piece on Noam Chomsky as a linguist--is downright boring, an object lesson in how words can get in the way of an explanation. But the book as a whole is remarkably rich; most of the interviews can stand rereading, and the lighter pieces in between make enjoyable breathing spaces...
...differences in bicycles are differences in cost, weight and performance. A $100 bicycle will weigh over 30 pounds, flex in the wrong places when you try to pedal hard, and get you around the city just fine. For a little more money the manufacturers use lighter rims, more reliable components, and take more care in building the frame. If you are willing to pay $160 or more you can get a bicycle with some of the steel replaced with lighter aluminum, and the weight will begin to come down. A cycle like this will carry you in style anywhere...
...drawings are at least 1,000 years old, the work of a sophisticated pre-Inca people who survived with the help of elaborate irrigation systems. To create their desert art, these early Peruvians removed strips of the topmost layer of stone, piece by piece, exposing the lighter-colored dirt underneath. They apparently made their precise markings without modern tools or surveying gear or even a high platform from which to view their progress...
...witnesses. One was David Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg's brother, who cooperated with the government and sent his sister and brother-in-law to the electric chair in return for a reduced sentence. The other was Harry Gold, a self-confessed spy who also traded his testimony for a lighter punishment. After two years of appeals, the Supreme Court voted by a six-to-three margin not to review the case, and President Eisenhower refused to commute the sentence. Eisenhower was apparently somewhat sympathetic to the Rosenbergs' plight, but Attorney General Herbert Brownell managed to convince him that the death penalty...