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...extremely happy as a body builder," Schwarzenegger says. "I was competing, training, doing seminars all over the world, winning the top trophies. The first time is the best. Fabulous! Even the second and third time, rubbing it in, letting them know you are here to stay. But then, all of a sudden -- zap! -- it is not enough anymore to make you happy. You say to yourself, 'Now what? I know that I don't have anything much better to do, but I am going to quit.' I wanted to go again for discomfort, to create the old hunger...
...term of derision. To Kuwaitis, the staggering fortune their nation has accumulated, and particularly the way it has been invested and saved, is a matter of pride. With 94.5 billion bbl. of oil in the ground, enough for more than a century of production, Kuwait boasts the world's third largest proven petroleum reserves. But unlike other nations, which spend their oil revenues almost as fast as they come in, Kuwait long ago decided to save for the future. So successful has the effort been that for some years before Saddam's perfidy, Kuwait was reaping more yearly income from...
...Middle East think that Texaco executives and American automobile owners are the only people who owe their livelhood to the flow of oil, they are tragically mistaken. Every dollar added to the price of oil means billions of dollars of foreign exchange lost by oil-importing Third World nations and the struggling democracies of Eastern Europe. Oil can only be purchased in hard currency, a frightfully scarce resource in all of these countries...
Maybe we are too affluent (and should take care that what we imported to Japan and Germany does not advance what we like to call the "Third World"). But ah, Innocence, how sublime they benefits! Maybe, Professor Nye, you should drop this whole disturbing subject, and you, President Bok, should bring your wild ideas back with you to Stanford. Paul D. Hanson Master, Dudley House
...among the first to pull over to the side of the road. True to that tradition, General Motors acknowledged last week that it was likely to report an operating loss for the fourth quarter, its first such deficit in four years. The world's largest auto company had operating income of $109 million in the third quarter before a $2.1 billion charge for plant closings pushed it into the red. GM attributed its latest problems to slack demand that has led the company to reduce its fourth-quarter car and truck production in the U.S. and Canada by nearly...