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...needed to create new blight-and pest-resistant hybrids will vanish. Paradoxically, some environmental problems may be the consequence of the best of intentions. As farmers try to squeeze more food out of their fields by irrigation, the soil's salinity will increase, thus impairing its ability to sustain crops. Less predictable, but no less frightening: a possible global heating from the growing volume of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere-expected to rise a third over preindustrial levels by century's end from continued burning of fossil fuels...
...auspicious opening was a difficult act to follow, and many Farmerites wondered whether the Riverworld was wide enough to sustain a projected tetralogy. The author's next works allayed all fears. The Fabulous Riverboat gives Burton some delightful traveling companions. He and the grownup Alice Liddell Hargreaves (child model for Lewis Carroll's Alice) meet a cynical fellow named Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who constructs a side-wheel steamer to voyage upriver. The second volume also introduces Cyrano de Bergerac and England's King John, who attempted to steal the throne from his brother Richard in real life...
Whether he can sustain his skill remains to be seen. Carter was profoundly impressed with the Roman Colosseum and Forum, which he had never seen before. Venice fascinated him by being so much different from anything he had known or expected. But as he sped toward home, the images of imperial grandeur faded. The President still seems to yearn for self-denial and simplicity, which are terribly hard to come by in the crowd with which he travels...
...Aroldingen and Lüders are at the ballet's center. They reach out and try to sustain each other. They walk slowly to gether, they caress, at one point they push at each other as if the energy might connect them. But he withdraws, becomes frantic or engulfed in icy loneliness (all too heavily underscored by a set that looks like an ice floe along which curtains have somehow been hung). In the end he walks slowly into a void. She is left, head bowed, her hand cupping her chin. Both dancers give bold performances. One expects...
...killed a lot of people through flooding and famine. The administration doves were eloquently concerned about the horrified editorials from the new media that such action would bring, but taking out the dikes would have won the war by striking at the heart of the North's ability to sustain the aggression...