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...steward served fried eggs, the President was asked how he would cope with the sudden change from wielding enormous power one day to having it disappear the next. "I don't know," he said, an answer that seldom passes from Carter's lips. His preoccupations have always been outside himself; he is not a man who publicly agonizes over his psyche. "Right now," he said, "I think I can accept the change without too much damage to myself...
...misleading to examine developments in El Salvador outside the Central American and Caribbean context. Although policy statements and analyses routinely include references to regional concerns, seldom is an attempt made at relating domestic developments in one country with those within its neighbors...
...continue to protest the boycott on the grounds that such tactics hurt long-run sales because they drive customers like the Soviet Union to other, more reliable suppliers. But few farmers can still contend that the embargo seriously hurts their profits. Indeed, the outlook for the American farmer has seldom seemed brighter. Prices have been rising fast, and the market for U.S. grain continues to expand. Says Agriculture Department Analyst Paul J. Meyers: "The long-term trend is for growth in the export trade and for relatively higher prices." Meyers predicts that the U.S. will export 1.53 billion...
Though they seldom command the daily headlines, scientists by their deeds sometimes possess the potential for the greatest impact upon the world's future. Consider such works as the green revolution, the transistor, antibiotics, computers: in the past few decades, all emerged rapidly and unexpectedly to alter the course of civilization. Last year a new technology, perhaps the most startling yet created by science, came of age: genetic engineering, the ability to alter the basic stuff of life...
...generation ago, Essayist E.B. White composed his classics Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, and Humorist James Thurber wrote The Thirteen Clocks, just as, a decade before, Oxford Don J.R.R. Tolkien had written The Hobbit, and before him, another Oxonian, Lewis Carroll, had produced the Alice books. But seldom have parents and children been offered such a multitude of first-rate works (see box) along with the customary flood. Such volumes are candidates for two librarians' awards of growing importance in the industry: the Randolph J. Caldecott Medal, named for a prominent 19th century illustrator and given...