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...approach so easily. Even the most efficient treatment plant faces the problem of "sludge disposal"--what to do with the stuff that is taken out of sewage being treated. The conventional approach has been to deposit the good in what are euphemistically called "sanitary lagoons,"but these are understandably unpopular with the lucky ones who live nearby...
...Polk suffered similar humiliation, even though he could claim victory in the end. Egged on by land-hungry Southern planters, he looked for reasons to attack Mexico, in the process pushed the American frontier to the Pacific Ocean. While it raged, Folk's war was the most unpopular in U.S. history...
...Spot Resolution," demanding that the Administration specify the exact spot on which Mexico had, in the words of Folk's war message, "shed American blood upon the American soil." Lincoln, like many other Americans, suspected that U.S. troops had provoked the incident inside Mexico. The war was particularly unpopular among U.S. intellectuals. Henry Thoreau spent a night in the Concord jail for refusing to pay his state poll tax. Next day, he returned to Walden Pond to write his famous essay on Civil Disobedience. Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that "the U.S. will conquer Mexico, but it will...
Britons are disenchanted with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, whose Labor government is plagued by, among other things, rising unemployment and a foreign-trade deficit. Two weeks ago,the Gallup poll found that Wilson's administration was the most unpopular British government since World War II. Last week the Daily Mail's National Opinion Poll reported that if elections were held today, Ted Heath's Conservatives would win by a 100-seat landslide. The results of two by-elections supported that statement. In the university town of Cambridge, the Tories recaptured a swing seat from Labor with...
...Harvard program is more of a show than a producer of officers, the Army does not assign Harvard its best officers. The end result is a sad cycle: very few Harvard undergraduates join ROTC, the Army therefore does not send first-rate commanding officers, and the program becomes more unpopular than before...