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...currently valued at $400,-000 to $600,000. Carter recently stunned the curator of Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art with his detailed knowledge of American artists. Thanks to a speed-reading course that he and his family just completed, the President now zips along at a rapid 1,200 words a minute. One night last week, as part of his final exam, he went through three entire books, including John Steinbeck's Of Mice...
Shoemaking, for instance, is well suited to Third World nations because it requires little capital and manpower is plentiful. South Korea and Taiwan, whose rapid economic progress has set an example for the entire underdeveloped world, are utterly dependent on the U.S. mar ket for the sale of shoes. In just nine years, Brazil has created from virtually nothing a $170 million shoe export business...
...corner stood Alan M. Dershowitz, Harvard professor of Law and defender of our precious individual liberties, bouncing up and down on his tiptoes and booming out in a high-pitched, rapid-fire cadence. In the other stood William F. Buckley, author, columnist, and Yale man, pleading--with raised eyebrows--for a decent and self-governed society in his cool, calm, collected style...
...Wells. Recent dry spells have made the world even more conscious of just how limited global water supplies really are. In many areas of the U.S. West, for example, the current drought (TIME, March 7) has accelerated the depletion of underground aquifers already strained by the rapid growth in population and agriculture. Many wells have already run dry, forcing farmers to dig deeper and more expensive ones in an effort to reach the declining water levels. Some farmers in the Texas Panhandle, who have been drawing their water from the deep and bounteous Ogallala aquifer, calculate that their wells will...
...than four years at local stations in Indianapolis and Chicago before being chosen last fall as leading lady of NBC's Today show (annual salary: more than $125,000). "I've been blessed with the good fortune of my sex from the beginning." she says of her rapid rise. Though some TV critics have clucked over her dearth of experience, Pauley has demonstrated precocious poise in her Today interviews and ad libs. She shares the show's food features and other "women's" stories with Host Tom Brokaw. "Why not?" asks Pauley...