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Another speaker, returning after four years in Laos, described the damage our bombs are doing there. Babies with flesh burned away. Mothers with but one breast to nurse them. Thousands of people starving in caves because their food has been destroyed and their homes have been bombed into oblivion...
...Into Oblivion. Last week conservationists swarmed into Washington to protest the Forest Service's actions before the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands. In Montana's 1,575,000-acre Bitterroot National Forest, argued Guy M. Brandborg, a former Forest Service official, clear-cutting has caused widespread erosion, threatening watersheds, wildlife and recreation. Wyoming Senator Gale McGee said that instead of regenerating naturally after clearcutting, as the Forest Service claims, the forests often have to be replanted with seedlings, a difficult and hazardous task, especially on steep slopes. McGee also said that timber companies favor clear-cutting over selective...
...clear-cut area is 100%, compared to about 60% for selective cutting. Howard Bennett, secretary-manager of Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers, went even further. Today's unmanaged forests, he said, are "graveyards of once fine trees that are now rotting hulks on the forest floor, sent into oblivion by the sincere but misguided efforts of those who confuse preservation with conservation...
...gravity. If the star is massive enough, the imploding gases gather such momentum as they fall that they virtually crush themselves out of existence at the stellar center. Using the formulas of Einstein's general theory of relativity, more recent theorists predict that as the star shrinks toward oblivion, the familiar rules of physics may be violated. Its mass becomes infinitely dense, yet occupies no space. Its gravitational pull becomes so intense that no light or other radiation can escape from it. Thus the star cannot be detected by conventional observations. It becomes a black hole, or as Cameron...
...Wilson, Dickens' determination to write sprang from a fear of sinking back into oblivion and poverty. His disenchantment with his parents primed him for his eventual satire of the feckless, posturing stratum of society that they epitomized. Father, an expansive but hopelessly improvident clerk, was to balloon into fiction as Mr. Micawber. Mother, with her snobbish faith in "connections" (one of whom was the manager of the blacking factory), would become not only Mrs. Micawber but later Mrs. Nickleby. "Peculiarly unfair" treatment for mother, Wilson concludes, but there was a special reason for that...