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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just hung on too much," Cleary said. "When you get into that mentality, it's hard to change....It's mass psychology. It permeates the whole group...
...only does the brief 13-page epilogue not meet the historical standards Levine presents in the rest of the book, it leaves the reader with an uneasy feeling that the whole historical excursion has been designed to encourage you to feel greater cultural tolerance. No doubt this is a worthy goal. But it seems Levine is on firmer ground when he presents the details of an integrated culture, and the ugly process whereby culture was used to divide people. When he presumes to discuss our current cultural problems, his approach seems as flawed as reading a book through the lens...
...containing steps aimed at halting the deterioration of the environment. For one thing, the proposed law would replace the White House's Council on Environmental Quality with a new body. Called the Council on World Environmental Policy, it would refocus attention on ecological problems of the planet as a whole. The bill also calls for tougher U.S. fuel-economy standards for autos and a phased-in ban on chlorofluorocarbons, the chemicals that exacerbate the greenhouse effect and destroy the stratosphere's protective ozone layer...
...interfaith amity was stretched too far last year, when Saudi Arabia's Ambassador recited from the Qur'an. Hatfield complains that the breakfast has become a status symbol and "a ceremony of civil religion." He has introduced a Senate motion to abolish the affair. Many foreign observers find the whole phenomenon of Potomac piety somewhat disconcerting. "It is incomprehensible to most Europeans," sniffs a British diplomat. "It's almost as bad as Freemasonry...
...first glance, the study would appear to be a serious blow to the greenhouse theory. Not so. The U.S. makes up only 1.5% of the earth's surface, and the country's temperature trends are not necessarily indicative of what is taking place on the planet as a whole. James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the most prominent proponents of the greenhouse theory, was not at all swayed by the new study. "Even in a warming world," he says, "you'd still expect on a statistical basis to see local variation...