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These nomads, however, possess an abiding belief that their way of life is precious. During the past few years, they have mounted a stirring, nonviolent campaign to defend the forests, which are their libraries, shops and larders. "We cannot be separated from the land where our ancestors have lived," says Asik Nyelik, the headman of Sungai Ubong who has twice been arrested for joining barricades to halt the loggers. Though the lure of modern living has reduced the nomadic Penans from 13,000 two decades ago to perhaps 500 today, those who remain see few advantages in choosing the "barren...
...tendency in American politics to find blame. The same tendency exists overseas--it's the anger that causes other Yugoslavs to blame the Slovenians for their economic malaise. Here, it's the blame that was for 45 years hoisted on Communism: Fighting the Reds cost us precious resources, the argument goes...
...tiny tobacco shop on Lenin Street. It is 10 a.m. on an overcast day in the provincial city of Perm. Many in the crowd, pressed against the closed plate-glass doors, have been waiting more than four hours just for this moment. A flatbed truck pulls up with a precious cargo of cigarettes. As two men begin unloading, the impatient shoppers surge forward. There is a resounding whack. A young policeman, standing in the truck, hits his billy club against the wooden side panel in warning. "He probably would like to bash a few heads," mutters a middle-aged woman...
...Children have to be removed from the commercial market and treated as a precious national resource. We have made the mistake of allowing the enculturation of American children to be in the hands of businesspeople, whose primary interest is not in these children's well-being or even in the well- being of the nation. These people are perfectly ready to exploit the worst possible human potentials. Parents, teachers, educators, social workers, should get involved to try to bring some regulation to this...
Rental space is nabbed as soon as it becomes available, and precious little ever becomes available, Harvard Square businesses are doing well for recession times, and they are firmly entrenched in cubbyholes and mini-malls located on Brattle St., Mt. Auburn St., Church St., Massachusetts Ave., John F. Kennedy St., and all of the smaller side streets in between...