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Saudi Arabian planning makes Texan big think seem like small talk. The Saudis are currently spending $15 billion on the largest desalination program in the world???and seriously pondering a plan for towing icebergs from the Antarctic to provide fresh water for a country that has not a single permanent river. The estimated cost of that: $80 million per berg. They are putting up $14 billion for a project that will bring natural gas to the newly planned industrial cities of Yanbo on the Red Sea and Jubail on the Persian Gulf, which are costing $30 billion to build...
...private negotiations, he is a plodding public speaker and a poor salesman for policies that sorely need selling. Since the President too lacks a flair for inspirational rhetoric or the graceful articulation of American foreign policy concepts, the Administration has not been projecting a coherent foreign policy to the world???or to Americans, either...
...complete solitude of Cell 54, when I had no links at all with the outside world???not even newspapers or a wireless?the only way in which I could break my loneliness was, paradoxically, to seek the companionship of that inner entity I call "Self." It was not easy. There were areas of suffering which kept that "Self" in the dark, shadows which troubled my mind and accentuated the difficulty of self-confrontation...
...early Christian centuries can be sampled in a huge exhibition, which opened last month at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Age of Spirituality," assembled under the direction of Art Historian Kurt Weitzmann, is a magnificent compendium of some 450 works in every medium known to the ancient world???marble carvings, glass, gold, jewelry, silver, paint, cameos, cloth, mosaic, ivory, bronze...
...largesse (see box). Starting in January, anybody who wins $1,000 or more on any lottery or by betting on or off any track will have 20% of his payoff withheld against taxes. Snaps New York OTB Chairman Paul Screvane: "Illegal gambling has the best partner in the world???the Government. We just can't compete...