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...gently prodded the U.S. to pay more heed to the demands poor countries for a more equitable of the world's resources. Mitterrand, in his speech opening the summit, presented a vision of heavy investment in high technology lifting both industrial and undeveloped countries out of the economic slough toward higher standards of living. Said Mitterrand expansively: "Communications technologies will usher in a new form of civilization...
...Nixon, a self-certified geopolitician--wonder where he got that from?--has set himself too lofty a task to dwell on past squabbles. He is warning us against ourselves, hoping against hope that we will slough off our guilt, indecision and blithe good nature and gear ourselves for the ultimate showdown at the OK Corral. After all, we are told...
...historical. But through all my years of teaching I have had the impression that the knowledge thus acquired touches neither the hearts nor the minds of students: the better ones pick it up as a sort of intellectual baggage, as they might a professional or athletic skill; the others slough it off the instant the relevant final examination is over...
...Western coverage of developing nations is shot through with colonial stereotypes; just as Europe's cartel once painted the U.S. as a land of scalpings, lynchings and ax murders, the Western press allegedly sees the Third World as a slough of coups, corruption and natural catastrophes...
...true dimension of Orland's plight becomes apparent in a walk through the fields with burly, gray-haired Robert McCombs. His quarter-mile-long slough for storage is empty. So is his well. His oats are stunted like a day's growth of beard on the dry fields. He sold off calving cows earlier this year because he could not water them. Paul Pehrson's 20 acres of orange trees are literally dying before his eyes. "It would take me ten to 15 years to get started again," he says. "I can't face starting...