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...Scarlet Ruse and The Turquoise Lament are the 14th and 15th installments of MacDonald's serially published dream manual about the beachboy Hamlet, Travis McGee. This paladin is a roughneck who lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., despoiling stewardesses and brooding about the decline of the West. He quests forth, when funds are low, to do battle for the dread forces of reality-a Robin Hood among chattel rustlers who steals loot back from thugs and swindlers and returns it, minus a 50% commission, to the widows and orphans from whom it was taken. Oftener than...
...system, which uses an optical scanner to record information, totally eliminates the manual steps currently needed to charge out library materials...
Datsun B210 manual transmission...
...typical November morning, the city's hordes of bicyclists are likely to be disturbed by trucks roaring out into the suburbs with gongs clanging and crimson banners flying. The trucks are full of high-school graduates who are being sent out for two years' manual work in the countryside "to learn from the peasants," in accordance with a Mao Tse-tung instruction first given in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution...
Nobody knows the exact population of Saudi Arabia; estimates range from 3,400,000 to 8,200,000. Skills are in short supply, and many Saudis generally consider manual labor beneath their dignity. Much of the work is done by 300,000 foreign laborers: Yemenites in the construction trades and Jordanians and Palestinians in the offices. There are some modern oases: Riyadh, the centrally located capital, and Jidda, the commercial center on the Red Sea, have expansive boulevards and plenty of low-rise apartment houses, shops and government buildings. But there are no movies and no night life...