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AMERICA'S LONG-LASTING marriage to the automobile, and the heavy dependence of the national economy on petroleum, has given birth to an international oil industry that has been able to exert an overpowering influence over its parents. The overgrown offspring is a quasi-autonomous international cartel that often gives it own interests priority over those of its mother country. Abuse of the economic and political power by the oil companies was not the sole cause of the recent quadrupling of world oil prices, but the industry has moved to suppress the entry market. The discouragement of synthetic fuel research...
...sentimental, books about a great sports figure ever written. Though it is no hagiography, Babe will please worshipful sports fans. Sports biographies are rarely truthful, and when truthful they are customarily boring. Creamer, a senior editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, does not disguise the fact that his hero was an overgrown child and far from a genius. Ruth, in fact, sometimes had trouble remembering the names of fellow players. But he played baseball-and lived-with a headlong joy that has rarely been matched...
...night, and Mr. Cowart says to him, 'Go away. That boy don't do anything wrong. Leave him alone.' I guess it seems like I come from nowhere. Sometime that first year I go to Mr. MacDonald, looking for someone to cut my grass here, it was so overgrown then. And he tells me, 'Hey, I think we can make us both some money here.' I didn't know it was hay, but now I got a tractor made in 1948, the year I was born, ready to go to work. Made a couple hundred dollars right there...
...begin instead by considering why you should spend $29.95 (plus tax, unless you can convince the Harvard Bookstore you're using it for a course) on this overgrown puppy of a book. Why shouldn't you invest your hard-earned money in, say, a five-month subscription to the Fruit-of-the-Month Club...
...attacks. Although Burundi is one of Africa's most overcrowded countries, with a population of 325 persons per square mile, I saw almost no one during many miles of driving in the countryside. Every dwelling has been abandoned or burned down. Fields of coffee, cotton and beans stand overgrown. At Nyanza Lac, a once-bustling village of 3,000 people on Burundi's Lake Tanganyika, the only inhabitants are wild dogs...