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...harvest of news each week, much of what TIME'S editors deal with lies quite properly in the realm of the expected: a long-awaited event to be reported and analyzed, a continuing question to be updated and more thoroughly understood. Yet the spice of journalism-for both editors and readers-is the unusual: a fascinating personage, a surprising relationship, a shocking conflict, an unexpected and intriguing proposition. A sampling from this week's issue...
...face of the desert. Their terrible purpose-to change the planet's ecology totally and transform it into a fertile land-is the force which transforms Paul Atreides into Muad'dib, a semidivine military leader who eventually topples the Emperor and becomes master of the Galaxy. Melange-an addictive spice grown only on Arrakis-gives Muad'dib the power of prerecognition which allows him to seize the moment and turn it to his advantage...
...compounding the problems of eclipse observation with the problems of ultra-violet rocketry, and just for spice, adding in the difficulties of a water recovery," he added...
...hair pressing pants walking dogs eating dinner reading books making love laughing crying explaining threatening proving sigh for it all because sigh is the bass note. Sigh for religion and sigh for the irreligious sigh for the relevant, sigh for death and life and sigh for a lack of spice and sigh for a lack of taste and sigh for too much ketchup and sigh for no more cigarettes sigh for biology sigh for bankers sigh for the good old days sigh for the future sigh with dispatch easily naturally inconspicuously oafishily amorally bitterly without emotion sigh on a diet...
...required three quarters at their regular salaries. To date, so many have chosen to work all year at extra pay that there has been no need to hire additional staffers. Teacher Jeanine Lewis of Grady High School says the new courses "keep me from being stalemated, and they add spice for the students, too." Mrs. Lewis believes the new system will also help dropouts ease back into school during the more casual summer quarter, when teachers can take more time to work with them...