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What sounds like a dream in the dog-eat-dog world of Harvard Square bookstores may be coming true if a 1987 College graduate...
...hydraulic pumps that can drain a field or rush water to urban centers on command. Using computers, engineers now try to mimic the natural flow into the park. If water levels fluctuate even by a matter of inches, the ecology of the Everglades can change radically. The same holds true if the water is polluted...
...dramatic stampede of more than 14,000 East Germans into West Germany last week followed Hungary's decision to grant the refugees passage across its border with Austria. The ensuing crush marked the largest mass exodus from behind the Iron Curtain since the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961. True, the flow was a trickle compared with the hemorrhage of 3 million East Germans to the West between 1949 and 1961. But this time there was the remarkable sight of Hungary bucking its Communist ally to assist the East German refugees in their quest to begin new lives...
Clearly, most of the new flood of refugees are not compelled westward by economic distress. True, the consumer offerings in West Germany far outstrip what is available back home, but East Germany enjoys the best living standard of any East European country. Most of the refugees, however, define a better life in terms that cannot be measured in deutsche marks. Of those polled, almost three-quarters said they were driven by the lack of freedom of expression and travel. Almost as many said they wanted more personal responsibility for their own destiny. As Heide Zitzmann, 37, a schoolteacher, summed...
...what you will about imperialism, it does have a way of keeping the natives from killing one another. This truth is entirely color-blind. What was true for, say, British India and East Africa is true for Europe. For 40 years the brutal Soviet dominion over Eastern Europe suppressed a myriad of nationalisms and kept things quiet. Now that Soviet power is in retreat, things are quiet no more...