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...Testifying before a United Nations symposium on the environment in Geneva, Swiss Marine Explorer Jacques Piccard warned that if nothing is done, all the oceans will be dead before the end of the century. Cousteau, who speaks with the authority of numerous dives made in virtually all of the planet's deep waters, told Senator Ernest Rolling's subcommittee on oceans and atmosphere that even the remote reef off Madagascar is "frankly dead today." In a very few years, he added, "there will be nothing alive" in the deeper waters of the Black...
...local level in thousands of communities, including Cambridge. Baha'is believe that as present-day institutions prove to be outgrown by man's evolving needs and crumble of their own unbalanced weight, these new institutions of a divinely revealed order will form the pattern for the unification of the planet...
...gathering of the clan, an assemblage of notables, a concatenation of critics, a precipitation of principals and, altogether, the grandest night in the recent history of Washington, D.C. At long last, the capital of the richest country on the planet had a cultural showcase of its very own. Costing nearly $70 million, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts contains not only an opera house, but a theater, a concert hall and a gargantuan promenade longer than two football fields laid end to end. It had to be seen, if not admired, to be believed...
Parts of the world-the slums of great cities like New York, London and Tokyo-are obviously overcrowded. But this does not mean that the entire planet is running out of room. Although India has a major population problem, with about 570 million people crammed into 1.1 million sq. mi., Australia has more than twice that much land and only 1/40 the population. Canada, Brazil and Russia all have vast empty spaces. And although much of this space is jungle or steppe or desert, the Israelis have demonstrated in the Negev that technology and hard work can make the most...
Without pity or grief or laughter, anger is neither moral nor healthy but simply dehumanizing. In Ionesco's scenario, just before the planet blows up, a man sitting in a café turns puce and explodes. Which is more destructive, Ionesco seems to ask, the atom bomb that swats all those flies or the chain-reaction anger behind it, disintegrating a man into his obsessions? In either case, the Ionesco moral is clear: in the 20th century, anger requires safety standards...