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...says Warren Furutani, 35, a counselor at U.C.L.A. "My life is full of contradictions." Indeed so. Furutani was born in L.A. He does not speak Japanese, but insists that his house guests take off their shoes. He frets about the ethics of buying a Honda. His son is named Sei Malik Abe Furutani. Says the father: "I want to teach this child to learn Japanese, to learn the customs and yet still be an American...
...author of Buck Ragers told R. Buckminister Fuller that he frequently used Fuller's concepts for his cartoons. Fifty years later, the ideas that Fuller originated still seem right out of sei-fi magazines. Fuller's previous inspirations were mostly technological; now he has coordinated ideas with experience into a blueprint for attaining utopia. He believes that fear of want could destroy the world, and wants to point humanity along the Critical Path before Arrnageddon comes. The weakness and strength of Fuller's book lie in his prognostications--they seem too fantastic, yet at the same time, one does...
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...caught without endangering the species. Officially, the International Whaling Commission is supposed to preserve the species by setting quotas, but the organization has no effective enforcement power, and it routinely sets quotas that will satisfy the major whaling nations. Japan has the right to catch 15,700 sperm, sei and fin whales this year, almost half the world total (the few remaining blues and humpbacks are now "protected"). Last spring, the U.S. and Japan made a separate arrangement for the U.S. to monitor Japanese catches, but even now the U.S. observers will see only about 3,000 of the dead...
...rich Antarctic waters continue to be based on the average amount of oil in a blue whale. Blues are the largest whales, often growing to 100 ft. in length and weighing 150 tons. Each contains as much oil as two fin whales, 2½ humpback whales or six sei whales. The net effect of measuring quotas in oil rather than individual species is that whaling expeditions kill everything that spouts; even the smallest whale has value. This year's Antarctic quota of 2,700 "blue-whale units" will cause more little whales to be killed than ever...