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...most of the estimated $150 million that global sales of Colombian emeralds generate each year. Fed up, the government closed most of its money-losing mines last year and invited bids for concessions to operate its richest deposits. Not one company or consortium would touch the offer with a ten-foot pick, even though world demand for emerald jewelry has grown voracious...
...team has uncovered many buildings and artifacts in the Turkish soil. In 1973 the expedition unearthed an impregnable fortress once admired by Alexander the Great. Diggers discovered its ten-foot thick walls by following a hunch that an inconspicuous stone might belong to the ancient structure...
Fifty counter-protestors marched across the street in front of the State House chanting "Abortion, Freedom Now." Twelve women dressed in white robes, chained together and carrying a ten-foot wooden cross, led the line of picketers from the pro-abortion Parent's Aid Society...
Though some traffic between the two houses exists on this level, most of it runs through the channels--or slips through the fingers--of popularizers and funny men in the pink-gloved Shavian tradition. But playing the dialectical scales with a ten-foot pole of fashionable sentiment tends to lopsided results. Such practices may sharpen the edge of wit but they blunt, if not miss, the point of dialectics. Hence the temptation to subscribe to the thesis that whatever the depth and seriousness of mind a dialectical command of reality requires, it must be incompatable with the temperamental high-jinks...
...Nest," which ran for 14 years in Saturday Review before Norman Cousins left the magazine. Martin Levin, who edits the column, thinks that the heartland is ready for some topical humor because "the little old lady from Dubuque is now in touch with Germaine Greer-if only with a ten-foot pole." In the first column, Lawyer Peter Friedman tells how his circle benefits from the presence of insect parts in food: "Instead of complaining, we're collecting the fragments and painstakingly assembling them into whole insects." New Yorker Writer Garrison Keillor parodies speed-reading courses and concludes...