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...generals have decided that any effort to require some military service of Americans would be unnecessary or, at any rate, too socially mischievous to risk. Many military planners believe that a return to the draft would be logistically inefficient (too many bodies coming of age all at once to sift through); on purely technical grounds, the matter is open to debate. Much more fascinating is the moral context in which Americans now frame the possibility of obliging citizens to relinquish their freedom for a while and put themselves physically on the line for their country...
...only by the existence of a heretofore unrecognized "something" having several million times the mass of our Sun. Gulping perhaps whole stars, and presumably growing, this bizarre region is probably a black hole. The qualifier is needed because we are still learning how to grope in the dark, to sift through the clues contained in invisible radiation. Like the archeologist who digs through ancient rubble in search of hints about the origin and evolution of culture, the astrophysicist interprets radiation, seeking clues about the origin and evolution of galaxies, all of which may have black holes in their hearts...
Correspondents in Iran sift conflicting signals...
...Mexico City, occupants of $250,000 houses in posh suburbs like Bosques de las Lomas daily witness scenes that evoke images from Dante's Inferno. Beneath a perpetual mushroom cloud of pollution rising from a huge garbage dump called Santa Fe, 1,000 pepenadores (those who pick things up) sift through a pile of rubble 1.6 miles long and hundreds of feet high for bones, paper, glass and other recyclable items. By selling this refuse to a trash king, the pepenadores can earn more than the daily minimum wage of $6.25. As a consequence, this wretched work has become...
...debate drones on as Rosovsky slumps in his chair huddled around his pipe. CHUL members sift through a huge pile of reports, subcommittee recommendations, and position papers. As the time limit approaches, Rosovsky quickens the pace. The meeting ends; no one mentions the new Student Assembly. A lot has been decided. The house is in order until next month...