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...plan to protect prospective U.S. commercial expansion while renouncing any intention of formally occupying Chinese territory. Through a series of notes to England, France, Germany and Russia, Secretary of State John Hay proposed in 1899 that no power discriminate against the others in trade within each country's own sphere of influence. Hay's request seemed so minimal and the balance of power so uncertain that no country dared provoke a war upon itself by refusing to comply...
...rate, Lenin put his finger on the most important aspect of imperialism-- not only did it rob its victims, it then broke their arms and legs, creating twisted cripples incapable of growth. The distortion extended to the sphere of culture and ideology as western ideas and values were forced on colonial societies. Vietnamese peasants worshipping French heroes and Chileans seeing Gone With the Wind in Santiago theaters were being silently robbed of the opportunity to draw upon their own past and to develop their own culture in terms of their own experience...
...scope of federal authority is now so vast and diverse that no member of Congress or executive branch department head can be aware of, let alone be able to exert any meaningful influence over, more than a fraction of even those issues and programs within his or her particular sphere of specialized responsibility...
...sport stands to reason. Horsehide struck with a stick, a fuzzy object whacked over a net, an inflated sphere thrown into a metal loop - any thinking child can see the absurdities of such games. A thinking adult, of course, is another matter. The intelligent, mature, reasonable fan can see no nonsense in his favorite game. On the contrary, the more ridiculous the better. This weekend some 70 million viewers will parse and analyze the most gripping, controversial absurdity of them all: professional football...
...implications of the theory of general relativity is that when giant stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, they collapse so suddenly under their own tremendous gravity that their remnants are compressed into a sphere only about two miles or so across and weighing trillions of tons per cu. in. The gravitational field of the sphere is so intense that no light can escape from it-thus the name "black hole...