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Modern man's awe of nature has pretty much atrophied. Primitive man stood in still wonder in the presence of the seamless order of the elements and took violent fissures of that order as omens of supernatural wrath. Today such disasters are rationalized as freakish accidents, not as shattering revelations of immutable forces that man may never tame...
...mining of bauxite for the aluminum industry and the export of sugar and bananas--more responsive to the needs of its own two million people. Manley sought to increase domestic production and foster popular participation in economic planning, thus wresting it from foreign control. He incurred the wrath of the business world by raising the taxes the foreign companies had to pay Jamaica, an attempt to bring more revenue to the island. This taxation and other measures. Manley charges, later prompted the multinationals to back attempts to unseat...
These are ordinary people forced into an extraordinary journey. They reject the comfortable complacency contained in the words of the village preacher. "If the Day of Wrath, the Dies Irae is near, and it is always near, then it is our duty to survive." Merely to survive is not enough; the risky quest to meet the near-legendary American soldiers is an opportunity to infuse a sense of adventure and myth into a cluster of lives grown grey and sodden under years of Fascist rule. So they make their way through the foothills, while the partisans and the straggling black...
Within a few years, the wizards at Bell Labs built the first fully transistorized (or solid-state) computer, a machine called Leprechaun. But by then Ma Bell, eager to avoid the wrath of the Justice Department's trustbusters, had sold licenses for only $25,000 to anyone who wanted to make transistors, and the scramble was on to profit from them. William Shockley, one of the transistor's three inventors, returned to his California home town, Palo Alto, to form his own company in the heart of what would become known as Silicon Valley. In Dallas, a young...
Kennedy's withdrawal clears the way for bolder Democrats to seek the party's nomination without incurring the wrath of devoted fans of his brothers' Camelot. On the two broad issues, creative Democratic alternatives--to the knee-jerk liberalism of Kennedy as well as to the simplistic atavism of Reagan--seem particularly...