supplies in arid regions," Platt writes. In Tampa, Florida, tluee municipal golf courses consume about 560,000 gallons a day. In the United States, home to more than half of the world's 50 million golfers, about 10 percent of golf courses are now being irrigated with waste water.
Fertilizers and pesticides are another golf course hazard, Platt notes. According to the U.S.- based Journal of Pesticide Reform, 750 kilograms (about 1,653 pounds) of pesticides are sprayed on a typical course annually....
Peter Shaw, in The Seiufli~eeReviezu (Spring 1994), University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. 37383.
It is more than passing strange: The academics who so strenuously object to the "canon" of the great works of Western literature never get down to cases. "Canon-busters" such as Barbara Foley, author of Radical Representations (1993) and Paul Lauter, author of Canons and Context (19911, do not challenge the standing of Hamlet, say, or any other particular revered work. In- stead,...
Peter Shaw, in The Seiufli~eeReviezu (Spring 1994), University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. 37383.
It is more than passing strange: The academics who so strenuously object to the "canon" of the great works of Western literature never get down to cases. "Canon-busters" such as Barbara Foley, author of Radical Representations (1993) and Paul Lauter, author of Canons and Context (19911, do not challenge the standing of Hamlet, say, or any other particular revered work. In- stead,...
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A dispirited populace and a tenacious com- munist nomenklaturahelped to make the come- back possible, but the biggest factor, Karatnycky argues, was that "anti-commu- nists lost their moral...
Angelo M. Codevilla, in Commentary (Aug. 1994), 165East 56th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
After industrialist Silvio Berlusconi's rightist coalition swept Italy's parliamentary elections last March, many European politicians and much of the prestige press in- America began warning of the return of Mussolini-style fas- cism. Codevilla, a c ell ow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, contends that there is no need to worry.
True, he says, the National Alliance, one of the three roughly...
war, mismanagement, corruption, Western sanctions, diplomatic isolation,oil-market fluctuations, and natural disasters-is in shambles, with unemployment officially around 15 percent, in- flation at 18 percent, and unoffi- cial estimates of both far higher.
Iran's borders are unstable, it has only a few friends left in the world (notably, Syria and Paki- stan), and worst of all, the Great Satan, a.k.a. the United States, is now the lone superpower on the planet and the chief military power in the...
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