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...minority there's idealism and an attempt to renew Chinese socialism. Consumeristic instincts go against the efforts of the radicals to whip up revolution." While he grants that the Chinese leadership could take either direction in the long run, like other Harvard China-watchers, he insists it would be useless to try to gauge policy shifts so early...
...river was not all that would have been destroyed by the dams. Creation of the huge lake would have inundated some 50,000 acres, most of which was prime agricultural land, and left another 50,000 acres all but useless. The lake's waters would have submerged more than 900 homes, trailers and cabins, drowned 600 farms, five post offices, 15 churches and twelve cemeteries. It would also have driven nearly 3,000 mountain people, most of them independent farmers, from lands settled by their ancestors before the Revolution...
...authors of the Rosenthal-CSPI report argue against keeping such information confidential. Michael Jacobsen, co-director of the center, said earlier this month that such private records have proven useless, with lax standards and cronyism limiting enforcement...
...phosgene, herbicides and pesticides, and carbon tetrachloride, at least 16 metals and many of their compounds -even the paint on pencils that might have been used as swizzle sticks. For a few days nickel carbonyl (a versatile industrial chemical) was a prime suspect, but the first laboratory tests proved useless because of contamination. Some unofficial observers speculated that diazomethane, a gas used in making plastics, might have been spread around in some mysterious...
...lower classes had none of these advantages and historians concerned about them are waging a long and difficult struggle to set the facts of history aright. Moreover, as the attitude of the archivist points out, most members of the working class have seen no reason for saving useless documents or even, for that matter, translating their experiences into words. Their concerns have always been more immediate as, I suppose, the archivist's were when he destroyed valuable documents in an effort to get on more quickly with whatever it is he was doing...