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...nature but of art in general. "I imitate everything but myself," he would explain. The savage speed of his experiments often led him in circles; sometimes he sacrificed progress to change. History may view him as a childish titan who almost absentmindedly laid vast granite foundations for a thousand castles...
...printer who was likewise a scientist, and who was hailed as the wisest man of his day . . . In 19th century Illinois, there was a rail splitter who was likewise a lawyer and who was hailed a champion of humanity . . . Education today can nurture for us the possibility of a thousand Franklins and a thousand Lincolns in a generation, where before we were fortunate to have...
...boss of almost a thousand officials, 35% of them ex-Nazis, 10% of them Nazi victims, he will carry out Adenauer foreign policy, relieve the aging Chancellor of details...
...colonial Kenya, the best farmlands are the Highlands, known as the White Highlands because only white settlers are permitted to own land there. Forty-three thousand whites share about 12,000 sq. mi. of the Highlands, while the colony's 5,300,000 Africans are crowded into 52,000 sq. mi. of less desirable farmlands down below, or scrabble for their living in the arid, underdeveloped "Crown Lands" -a euphemism for wilderness. For many years the million-strong Kikuyu tribe, less uneducated than most and peacefully inclined, talked hopefully of expanding their holdings into the White Highlands; instead...
...biggest single consumer of water is irrigation, which has spread from a few thousand western acres in 1850 to some 30 million acres, sprawled over such eastern and southern states as Delaware, Rhode Island, Mississippi. To grow a bushel of corn by irrigation requires about 10,000 gallons of water; to grow a ton of alfalfa hay, about 200,000 gallons. At present irrigation soaks up about 100 billion gallons of water daily, almost half the water withdrawn by the entire nation...