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...years. One exception: in the budget, spending on energy research and development would rise by $650 million, to a total of $1.6 billion. Most of the added money would be used to develop nuclear-power projects and coal technology. Another exception: the Administration would nearly double spending on mass transit, from $488 million to $900 million, and federal subsidies would finally be available to help reduce the operating deficits of local transit systems...
Only hours after John Vliet Lindsay was sworn in as mayor of New York eight years ago, 33,000 transit workers walked off their jobs and brought the city dangerously close to paralysis. Lindsay's successor, 67-year-old Abraham Beame, the city's first Jewish mayor, has faced no comparable calamities since becoming the new tenant in Gracie Mansion. But his opening weeks have not been as smooth as cream cheese either. Having based his political reputation on a decades-long record of personal integrity, Beame pledged during his campaign "to make our administration a model...
...months, probably at a local post office. Drivers in rural - '- areas would get 41-49 gal. a | month. Motorists in large cities that have relatively poor public transportation, including Miami, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., would receive roughly 90% of the rural allotment. In big cities that have good transit facilities, including New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco, drivers would get 80% of the rural ration...
Western criticism has borrowed some of its words from Chinese art, but paintings like these make one realize how the terms have suffered in transit. To speak, for instance, of the "calligraphy" of a Western artist-Pollock's dripped skeins of paint, or the brisk rhythmic jotting of a Rembrandt sketch -is to use a metaphor. In classical Chinese painting, it is not. The wen-jen used the same brush for painting and writing, the same ink, the same habits of mind. The distinction between word and image, which is one of the sharpest divisions in our culture, barely...
...bears, who crunch rocks for water, sport silicon skins to protect themselves against deadly sunburn, and hibernate for thousands of years at a stretch. Sagan also contemplates astro-engineered civilizations so far advanced that their accomplishments would seem to us "indistinguishable from magic." He can easily imagine intergalactic, rapid-transit routes where "an object that plunges down a rotating black hole may re-emerge elsewhere and elsewhen-in another place and another time...