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...N.E.B.'s description of sexual acts and bodily functions. Saul no longer enters a cave "to cover his feet," but "to relieve himself." To ensure that their camps would be fit for God's presence, Israelites are instructed to carry a trowel with them; "When you squat outside" the camp, orders Deuteronomy 23: 13, "you shall scrape a hole . . . and cover your excrement." Husbands and wives no longer "know" each other, but "have intercourse." The man struck down by untimely death in Job no longer has "breasts full of milk," but "loins full of vigor." ("What...
...nations presents a formidable problem. In Tanzania, for example, there are 120 tribal groups speaking at least as many distinct languages. Yet many African countries may be better off with many small, weak tribes than with a few strong rival groups. In the early '60s in Rwanda, the squat Bahutu literally cut the tall, stately Watutsi down to size by whacking their legs off. Thus ended the age-old Watutsi hegemony over the Bahutu. Two smoldering guerrilla wars are ethnic in origin: Black Africans are pitted against lighter-skinned Arabs in the Sudan and Chad. A tense situation that...
Militant Protestants paraded with placards urging the state to CONTINUE DEVLIN'S UPBRINGING IN THE ARMAGH GAOL. Partisan Catholics punctuated her defense in Londonderry's squat Victorian courthouse with foot stomping and applause. Moderates on both sides feared a new outburst of violence when the trial of Bernadette Devlin, the 22-year-old British M.P. and civil rights firebrand, came to an end last week. To their relief, the fragile peace that has prevailed between Northern Ireland's Catholics and Protestants since last August's rioting was preserved...
Learning Alternatives. The child reaches the threshold of grown-up logic as early as seven and usually by eleven. Before that point, he may think that water becomes "more to drink" when it is poured from a short, squat glass into a tall, thin one with the same capacity. The reason for this stubborn misconception is that the child is paying attention only to static features of his environment, not to transformations. Now, at the age Piaget calls that of "concrete" intellectual activity, the child can deduce that pouring does not change the quantity of the water. He has begun...
...squat, muscular ball carrier atop the Heisman Trophy conveys the very essence of the purposeful, straight-ahead backfield powerhouse. As a rule, however, the award that designates the country's best college football player goes to a man of flashier stripe-the fancy-Dan quarterback, the breakaway halfback. Not this year. In Tailback Steve Owens of Oklahoma, the Heisman electors tapped a man little given to subtlety afield. "Oh, he can fake people," says one of his coaches, "but more often he just splatters...