Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wasolo, where "Doctor Paul" maintained his medical mission, is a sudden clearing on the turn of a jungle road 800 miles northeast of Leopoldville and a million miles from nowhere. In Lingala, the lingua franca of the region, the place is aptly called "The End of the World." The Africans have beaten down the sobi grass around their huts in fear of snakes; beyond rises a wall of impenetrable rain forest. The hospital compound dominates a low hill. The house itself is red brick, and in the rainy season its roof pours drinking water into barrels standing beneath the eaves...
...best solution is to keep the Fifth intact, while adding more and more good judges to handle the load. As they put it, There is no magic in the number nine." The real magic lies in preserving a great court that balances local feelings against the needs of the region and the nation...
...midwaters between the surface and the bottom, a region usually neglected by commercial fishermen, swarm with great schools of hake. Often the giant net has caught them at the rate of a ton a minute. Pacific hake bring a low price because they are used to make fish meal, but the net has also caught ocean perch and other food fish. The bureau is looking forward to a time when fleets of supernets will comb the neglected mid-waters of the North Pacific, gulping shiploads of fish that are now almost untroubled by fishermen...
Despite its ineptitude, deep within the murky horror of Les Abysses there are glimmerings of intelligent despair. Two half-demented lesbian sisters (played by real-life sisters Francine and Colette Berge), employed as housemaids on a poverty-ridden farm in the Bordeaux region, are afraid that jobs and home will be sold away by their indifferent masters. Unable to sabotage the deal, they ultimately go berserk and commit two savage murders...
...best Ranger photographs, explained O'Keefe in teh magazine Science, show a region covered by broad, light-colored streaks radiating from the craters Copernicus and Tycho. These rays are believed to be dust and fragments tossed out by teh meteor impacts that blasted the two craters, and since they lie on top of most other lunar features, they are listed among the youngest parts of the moonscape. But O'Keefe also found a conspicuous black mark showing starkly against the lighter background of one of Tycho's rays. The ray had not dusted the mark with light...