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...SHUDDER PASSES through the form of sleeping Derek Bok; The floor creaks in the hallway, a key turns in the lock. He wakens; it is morning; his dreams have filled the night, And President Bok's secretary switches on his light. "There's thirty, forty students outside banging on the door, Demanding that they see you." He asks, "What're they here for? Is it the Third World Center? Is it a tenure dispute? Is it about those kiosks? Or maybe the shuttle bus route? Could it be the latest divestiture demand? Is it the Radcliffe Forum...
...unhurried pace of traditional Western life, the neighborly feeling of the small towns and above all the sense of individual independence. "There's a way of life disappearing," says Orson Rollins, 69, a retired rancher who now operates a service station in Craig, Colo. "We never used to lock our doors. That's gone." Says Postal Clerk Helen Stout, whose onetime sheep town of Parson, Wyo., is now filling
Driven by as yet unfathomed forces deep within the earth, the plates move no more than a few inches a year, bumping, jostling and grinding against each other with incredible force. These movements can have enormous consequences. Opposing plates often lock, so that great stresses begin to build up. When the pressures become so large that they exceed even the strength of the rock, the earth fractures, frequently along "faults" where earlier breaks have occurred. Like a wound spring suddenly uncoiling, the earth releases its stored energy in shocks that may be felt far beyond the fracture. This...
EVEN AMONG mass murderers, the case of Theodore Robert Bundy stands out, the most grimly fascinating of them all. While all psycho-killers lock us in a morbid, white-knuckled attention, Bundy's story seemed especially intolerable and seductive...
...future of Alaskan lands was also one of the most contentious environmental questions of the day. Conservationists maintained that Alaska's timbered coastline and tundra needed strong federal protection. Developers and businessmen, supported by Alaska's top elected officials, argued that the Federal Government should not lock up virgin land before its soil and mineral wealth could be assessed. After almost four years of warfare over how to balance economic and environmental interests, Congress last week finally passed an Alaska land bill...