Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Callenbach began by looking at sewage. "I come from a long line of Calvinist Dutch preachers, and I knew that throwing all of this valuable organic material down the drain was just plain wrong." What he created for Ecotopia was the "stable-state system" -- recycling food wastes and sewage into fertilizer to grow more food. "Then I thought, any group of people sensible enough to get their act together in this way would clearly do a lot of other things differently. So I began to think of things like extruded- plastic houses and wood architecture. And I moved on gradually...
...holdings from companies doing business in South Africa shows you understand the basic idea of foreign policy--the profit motive is far more important than morality. We can't let the concerns of thousands, even millions, of people effect our policy toward their nation. That would be just plain silly...
...found his first wide audience, his nickname is the Stimmwunder (Wondervoice). What McFerrin does ranges so widely, from scat to rock to jazz and off into the twilight zone, that any number of names can suit him. The "Body Electric" is what he calls himself, with some bemusement. Plain "terrific" will do very nicely...
...film castigating his whole family about the need for secrecy, yet in one scene he gets drunk, comes home, and shrieks out a confession to the neighborhood at the top of his lungs. It is one of the first moments where the movie goes definitively from implausible to just plain stupid...
...last word to our athletes. Plain and simple: don't do it. Don't attempt to beat the system. You will only hurt yourselves and the people who look...