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...drug busters, Burma is Asia's mother lode, the source of 60% of the heroin coming into America. Last year, officials say, Burma seized less than 1% of the estimated 2,575 metric tons of opium its drug lords produced...
...later: "As a writer, Shakespeare was a sort of god." Bloom is entitled to his worship, since he has spent a lifetime of reading achieving it. But he is not, in The Western Canon, a very effective prophet for his cause. Imaginative literature -- sacred texts or a rich lode of inspiring writing -- badly needs a less agonized champion...
...Fossil Lode in the Gobi Desert...
Just above town are a couple of 10,000-ft. peaks: Crown Butte, which is a spectacular, striated pillar, and Henderson, a hulk that bears old scars from open-pit mining. Digging petered out here in the 1950s -- as it happened, only a few feet short of the mother lode. Underneath Henderson, recent exploration has shown, are ore deposits said to be worth $1 billion. It is here that Noranda's subsidiary Crown Butte is pushing hard to start up a large 24-hour- a-day gold mine and processing mill. Workings would be underground and no cyanide would...
...possible, how do we comprehend him: by reason or only through an ecstatic epiphany of faith? These questions have tormented theologians and mystics in the 4,000-year history of monotheism. Their wildly varied answers are explored in an absorbing new book from Britain with a catchy title, a lode of learning and a challenging thesis. Whether or not one accepts the biblical teaching that men and women are made in God's image, argues the author of A History of God (Knopf; $27.50), it is clear the deity is a product of humankind's creative imagination...