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...again decided to ignore warnings not to hike in the midday sun, and started up the South Kaibab Trail. Twenty yards up the trail was a big sign saying "WARNING--THIS TRAIL NOT RECOMMENDED FOR HIKING OUT. THERE IS NO SHADE, ONLY ONE EMERGENCY TELEPHONE, AND IT IS VERY STEEP. TAKE AT LEAST FOUR QUARTS OF WATER, ALLOW SIX TO EIGHT HOURS FOR HIKE! MULE RESCUES ARE COSTLY AND NOT ALWAYS AVAILABLE." Scratched under that was the legend "Jim Duggin did it on only two quarts, 4/13/77." I had no water at all, and I planned to make the whole...
Fistfights broke out when soldiers began to evacuate 250 members of the ultranationalist Gush Emunim movement from their camp by carrying them down the steep rocky slopes. Israeli radio reported at least fourteen injuries occurred in the raid...
...squeeze inflation down below 5% by late 1981. Consequently, interest rates will tumble. With inflation, taxes and interest rates all lower, business people will be able to invest in capital goods without demanding abnormally high rates of return to justify their outlays. Because those "hurdle rates" have been so steep, capital spending has been retarded for years. Just to stay competitive in the world, the U.S. needs to put 12% of its G.N.P. into such investment, but the figure has been 10% since the early 1970s. Result: America's plant is aging and outdated, and a huge backlog...
Parsing the Declaration, the author sometimes labors like an exegetical lecturer heading up a steep incline. But the exertion yields refreshing perspectives. Wills argues that Jefferson, far from being the Lockean individualist that scholars and patriotic orators have assumed, believed in sociability, ties of affection, a religion of the heart rather than of the head, a sentimental spirit-grounded in sensibilité. He was inspired not by Locke but primarily by the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, like Francis Hutcheson and Thomas Reid, and their intellectual cousins on the Continent...
Casa Mexico(on Winthrop St. off Mt. Auburn) offers excellent food at fairly dear prices; although the prices are steep by Mexican restaurant standards, Casa Mexico has to be the clear choice over La Pinata...