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...goes some of the advice in The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Chronicle Books; 176 pages; $14.95), an improbable how-to manual that recently has been climbing the paperback nonfiction best-seller list and is now in its eighth printing. In addition to bad animal encounters, it probes life-threatening predicaments you'll almost certainly never face. For examples, the book offers straight-faced tips on how to escape quicksand (don't fight it, float on it); how to survive if your parachute fails to open (if a fellow skydiver is nearby--and that's one big if--grab...
...that African companies hoping to gain duty-free access to the U.S. textile market must buy American fabrics. The cost of buying and then shipping the fabric to Africa would be so prohibitively expensive that only the largest companies could afford to do so. Indeed, the most likely scenario is that textile factories currently using cheap labor in Asia will move to Africa, which would offer even cheaper labor as well as duty-free access to the U.S. market...
Although the bill would only apply to companies that comply with international labor laws, this scenario raises questions about exploitation and whether increasing business for large companies is the best way in which to develop poorer countries. For example, factories often lift the economy by providing new jobs, only to devastate it when they leave a few years later, having found cheaper labor elsewhere. However, although African textile unions object to the mandate to buy American fabrics, they overwhelmingly support the bill, which they hope will lead to increasingly more open markets. Indeed, the bill has the cross-cultural appeal...
...guys, Eric Pfeiffer '81, was from Montana and got us a tour there through an agent he knew. We did this totally absurd tour of roadhouses in Montana during the summer of '80. It was a real kick in the ass...a real Blues Brothers type of scenario: people throwing stuff, getting fired in the middle of gigs. I had an interesting conversation with a guy in Eureka, which is just ten miles from the Canadian border. It's the kind of place where bald eagles roost on trees...
Meanwhile, ironists and fatalists draw austere satisfaction from the fire-or-ice scenario, which reflects the quintessential human perception that nobody gets out of life alive. And that's just what makes me suspicious of it. The great lesson of scientific cosmology is that the universe does not usually conform to our time-honored ways of thinking--that to understand it, we need to think in new ways. Integral to modern cosmology are mind-bending 20th century concepts like Einstein's curved space, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the realization that exotic subatomic particles sail through our bodies...