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...think history will conclude that democracy as an institution was exterminated, like the dodo and the passenger pigeon, because it was unable to anticipate trouble with intelligent action; it could only react blindly like a jellyfish when stimulated by immediate contact...
...State Dulles was persuaded to take out the word "Communist" in order to render the agreement more attractive to the four "Colombo powers" (India, Indonesia, Burma, Ceylon-especially the last two) who had stayed away. In a separate protocol, the U.S. made it clear that it promised to react only to Communist attacks, in order not to get mixed up in brawls between non-Communist Asian nations-for example, a fight between India and Pakistan over Kashmir...
Washington, which has no high hopes of SEATO in any case, did not know how to react to this latest evidence of fraying in the U.S.-British bond...
...stagnant air over the mountain-hemmed area, ordinarily harmless chemicals rise from factory chimneys, auto exhausts, backyard incinerators at the rate of 3,100 tons a day. Under strong sunshine, the chemicals react with one another and with molecules of ozone (O 3 ) to form a low-hanging, acrid pall, irritating to humans and damaging to crops...
...ozone increases, so does smog. Los Angeles' sunshine has made the atmosphere the most ozone-laden in the world: as high as 80 parts per 100 million parts of air. The solution to the Los Angeles smog problem, according to the Stanford scientists: find out which materials react with the sun to form ozone, filter them out before they reach the open...