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Says Nastase: "In the locker room he might not talk to anyone for an hour. They should send Borg to another planet. We play tennis. He plays something else...
...Hunts revealed in the documents the inner relations of family businesses. Each brother, for example, owns an equal share of Planet Petroleum. But Bunker has 50% of Hunt International Petroleum, which holds valuable oil leases in Canada's Beaufort...
...this plateau is literally out of the world-on Venus. Though the perpetual cloud cover of the earth's nearest planetary neighbor has kept its surface tantalizingly hidden, Venus' veil is being lifted by a gifted robot. The Pioneer-Venus Or biter spacecraft has been circling the planet since December 1978, analyzing its atmosphere and scanning and rescanning its surface with radar. Last week NASA released the first renderings of these extraterrestial data, revealing a dramatic and awesome landscape still in the process of formation. Though 60% of the Venusian topography consists of flat rolling plains, it also...
Dubos's ideas will not appeal to those hard-line environmentalists who regard man as an interloper and a destroyer of the planet. The author, noting that all animals alter their environments, brilliantly marshals his evidence for an intelligent balance. He may not convince those whose idea of nature is the replica of the Matterhorn at Disneyland or those who see themselves as noble savages. But his words should be welcome to the great majority of people who live somewhere in between...
...China, too, Agnew would have stuck up for decency, not kowtowing to Peking simpy because it represented a fourth of the planet's population. "I disagree completely--and still do--with President Nixon's initiative to 'normalize' relations with the People's Republic of China," he writes. By looking with favor on the reds, he explained, we gave them "the political and economic muscle to seriously impair the security and prosperity of the seventeen million people on the island." And, he notes, with a tinge of sadness for the days when America had the guts to stand by its word...