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FRAGILE EARTH Massive??change is the theme of this book, which documents the climate transformations the planet has been undergoing in recent years, many of them undesirable, most a result of human actions. As you might expect from a book assembled to convince you that something very unpleasant is afoot, the images are sobering. All the same, there's a considerable wow factor in the aerial and space photography the editors frequently use to illustrate their points about melting ice caps, advancing deserts and rising sea levels. They have a particular thing for discouraging compare-and- contrast shots of sights...
...Class of '68 has also harassed military recruiters and Dow Chemical interviewers, picketed induction centers, held massive???and sometimes unruly?rallies to protest the war. It has eyed its own campuses critically and loudly cried out for a more relevant education. It has demonstrated in support of fired professors and striking janitors, thrown itself in front of campus bulldozers, demanded everything from black-culture courses to total freedom from parietal rules...
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