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...books--dazzle at 50 paces, they don't quite have the flash of recent popular exhibitions. The Persian miniatures lack the lustrous, overpowering gold of Tut, the intricate bejeweled splash of the Sythian gold, or the chic of just-released objects of Chinese archeology. If anything, the exhibit's origin--Iran--work against its success. But "Wonders of the Age," like its proprietor, is not your average exhibit...
...American products, ranging from drilling equipment and spare tractor parts to cigarettes and beer, by shipping them through Hong Kong or Singapore. Indeed, the ban is taken so lightly that Hong Kong exporters last year openly declared that $2 million worth of exports to Viet Nam were of U.S. origin. While the embargoes make the symbolic point that the U.S. will not tolerate Soviet aggression, the price of this stand has been high for farmers, grain traders and industrial exporters; and the bans have not achieved their goals...
RELIGION WAS RIGHT and science is wrong," wrote D.H. Lawrence in 1923. "Every individual creature has a soul, a specific individual nature, the origin of which cannot be discovered in any cause-and-effect process whatever. Individuality appears in defiance of all scientific laws." By "science" and "laws" Lawrence meant psychoanalysis, which to him stripped away the dignity and mystery of mankind and reduced all human actions to the perfectly rational level. Under psychological scrutiny man ceases to be human at all. Instead he becomes "a little god inside a machine, working all the gears...
...survey. Some 83% of the nation's households will get the short version, which asks seven personal questions, such as each resident's name, sex, age, marital status, race (15 categories, including white, black, American Indian, Filipino, Eskimo and Guamanian) and whether the respondent is of Spanish/Hispanic origin. Specific queries about race and national descent have been sought by minority group leaders who have argued that many of their members have been overlooked in past counts. Said Juanita Steadham, a prominent Creek Indian activist: "Before, the form said 'black and others.' Indians would not mark...
...label bottles of French wine shipped in from The Netherlands. Eutron ran up a $22,000 bill with the warehouse, which in turn seized 3,000 bottles of wine still awaiting export to the U.S. Meanwhile a British customs officer got curious about the special green certificates of origin that under European Community rules must accompany quality wines. On the Dutch seal on one form, he noticed, the likeness of Queen Juliana was facing in the wrong direction: it proved to be an impression made by using a Dutch coin. A wine expert was quickly called in to sample...