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...DEPTH--and the myriad valid justifications--suggests that surmounting the bitterness will be hard, much harder than stretching out some mythical, folksinger hand of brotherhood, much harder than pinning a green ribbon on the lapel, much harder than announcing that you will begin to consider Blacks for faculty positions--even with the best intentions. "We are, by reason of the lives we have led, a suspicious people. We are the children of suspicious people, as were our grandparents and their grandparents. This has been so with us even back to those people most of call foreparents. Now, if we think...
...Myriad evils--officers bent on promotion, industrialists bent on profit, generals bent on status, and politicians bent on re-election--all do their part to plague the American military. Fallows contends. He lays the bulk of the blame for weakness, though, on two phenomena: The Pentagon's affection for unbelievably expensive and ludicrously ineffective high-tech weaponry, and the manpower problems that have developed since the draft was halted...
Ignition can occur in various ways. "Snorting," or sniffing the white powder, ensures absorption of the drug into the bloodstream through the mucous membranes. But it also constricts the myriad little blood vessels in these membranes, reduces the blood supply and dries up the nose. With repeated coke use, ulcers form, cartilage is exposed and the nasal septum can be perforated, requiring repairs by plastic surgery. (Savvy users rinse their noses with water after sniffing to wash away the irritants.) To avoid the impurities of street coke and obtain a greater jolt, more users are resorting to freebasing. After dissolving...
...tumbling ignominiously back to earth in 1979, Salyut was durable and highly innovative in design. Among its technological features were two docking ports (to receive visiting spacecraft, including a new class of fully automated, unmanned supply ship) and large, winglike solar panels (to convert sunlight into electricity). Salyut carried myriad scientific and observational gear, notably a multi-spectral camera, telescopes for scanning the heavens, kilns for processing materials in zero-g atmosphere, even a small garden for growing plants in orbit...
...used by the College--will also receive attention. In the Science Center and William James, efforts will include alterations in ventilation systems which circulate more air than necessary. In the labs, fume hoods--which are "intensely energy wasteful," according to Leahy--will be altered to become more economical. A myriad of additional renovations to these buildings and others aim at meeting Dean Rosovsky's target of a 50-per-cent reduction in fuel consumption within five years, Leahy says. If realized, the energy savings will free up lots of money for repairs and maintainance, officials anticipate...