Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kids then graduate to "Make Your Own World." Eleven teams with an equal vote represent farmers, jobless workers and real estate developers as well as such usually disenfranchised interests as air, forests, soil-even deer. Playing the role of master planner, the teacher affixes overlay pictures of various new projects to the magnetic game board. She reads from a card describing each project's environmental consequences-the good and the bad. An industrial park, for example, brings 1) economic prosperity, 2) a larger population that will need additional space-consuming highways, and 3) air pollution. The kids then decide...
...bear out the "Message to Asia" that the Pope had broadcast before leaving Manila. "The church cannot be foreign to any nation or people," he said. "It is held to be incarnate in each climate, culture and race. It must plunge its roots deep into the spiritual and cultural soil of each place and assimilate each genuine value." Among Asia's special values singled out by Paul: "The discipline of your ascetics, the profound religious spirit of your people, the filial piety and attachment to the family, the cult of ancestors...
...Wolfe, the atmosphere was redolent of Radical Chic, the social posturing he himself was about to immortalize. Radical Chic, he writes, "invariably favors radicals who seem primitive, exotic, and romantic, such as the grape workers, who are not merely radical and 'of the soil' but also Latin; the Panthers, with their leather pieces, Afros, shades, and shoot-outs; and the Red Indians, who, of course, had always seemed primitive, exotic, and romantic." And yet while supporting her cause, the Radically Chic hostess has also to maintain the proper apartment, the proper address, and, of course, the proper servants. At best...
...third day, Lunokhod had moved confidently across at least 600 ft. of lunar soil, turned to photograph the mother ship, climbed up an incline and crossed a small crater. The robot also displayed impressive scientific skills. Like Luna 16, it carries a device to gouge out samples of lunar soil. It also has the capacity to analyze samples -with an onboard X-ray spectrometer -and report the findings to earth. In addition, it can detect cosmic rays, stomp on the ground to test its rigidity and-speculates Heinz Kaminski of West Germany's Bochum Observatory, where the radio transmissions...
...much more severe. There's this problem of laterization- the turning of the soil into a sort of brick-like substance. I don't know what Meselson discovered- he couldn't do much work on the ground really because they can't land in these places, it's dangerous...