." The exaggeration was only slight. Miami today serves the West Indies and Latin America much as Singapore serves the East Indies and Asia, facilitating the transnational movement of people, goods, and money. On a peninsula jutting 400 miles into the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, Miami is closer to Mexico City than to New York, closer to Caracas than to Chicago. It offers direct access by sea and air to the markets of Europe, by truck and train and plane to all of North America.
If Miami...
As more and more Cubans crowded into Miami during the early 1960s, all statistical projections were dismal. Experts fore- saw a prolonged siege of medical crises, economic stresses, and ethnic frictions; a teeming burden of "social disorders," needs for housing, welfare, and simple hygiene, an impossible load for the already afflicted social services of Miami.
poring through the press coverage and political comment of the day, it is difficult to find any observers who saw this human...
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George Gilder
As more and more Cubans crowded into Miami during the early 1960s, all statistical projections were dismal. Experts fore- saw a prolonged siege of medical crises, economic stresses, and ethnic frictions; a teeming burden of "social disorders," needs for housing, welfare, and simple hygiene, an impossible load for the already afflicted social services of Miami.
poring through the press coverage and political comment of the day, it is difficult to find any observers who...
," he used an apt phrase, as valid now as when he coined it 120 years ago. It perfectly expresses the close but at the same time slightly uneasy relationship between the American Repub- lic and the religious spirit.
That Americans are exceptional in their attitude toward re- ligion is obvious to all, and never more so than today. But visi- tors from old Europe, such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Pope John Paul 11, are struck by the way in which high church atten- dance rates and an often blatant...
the Army's secret Manhattan Project. Atomic power has since been widely tapped as a key source of energy. At last count, there were 342 nuclear power plants in 26 countries, among them such unrich states as South Korea, India, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, and Spain. Some 146 more are being built, and others are con- templated: China is planning a dozen plants. Reactors supply about one-half of the electricity in France and Belgium, more than 40 percent in Finland and Sweden, more than 20 percent in Switzerland,...
the United States today, the atom produces as much electricity as the entire country used 25 years ago. Reactors supply about one-third of the power in New England and the Chicago area, and large amounts else- where. Yet opposition persists. The target of this 1984 poster: California's Diablo Canyon plant, first planned to start up in 1973.
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It was just 40 years ago this season, soon after Hiroshima and the end of World War 11, that the U.S. Congress began...
now, most specialists are satisfied with the safety record of nuclear power.
So argues University of Pittsburgh physicist Bernard L. Cohen in Before It's Too Late: A Scientist's Case for Nuclear Energy (Plenum, 1983). He cites polls showing that 89 percent of scientists (and 95 percent of those in energy-related fields) favor atomic power. Yet many laymen still rank the atom as a worse hazard than auto accidents and cigarette smoking. They are, Cohen says, "misinformed."
A study directed...
public agencies and private institutions
"The New Politics of Inequality."
W.W. Norton and Co., 500 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 101 10.288 pp. $15.95.
Author: Thomas Byrne Edsall
When Ronald Reagan won election to the White House in 1980, the nation seemed to have shifted to the political Right. Edsall, a Washington Post re-porter, argues that the shift actually occurred the mid-1970s. By then, he contends, both the Republicans and the Democrats had largely de- serted the poor and t...
Detective and mystery fiction have But much of the fiction today is on changed enormously since the the move, so violent, so swift, that Golden Age of the 1920s and '30s, neither the reader nor the detective when Dashiell Hammett, Raymond has much leisure to practice the gen- Chandler, and Agatha Christie tle old art of ratiocination. reigned supreme. The growing band of academics
No longer do the best murders oc- who study detective fiction has cur in the homes of the best people. pretty well...
Jacob Ja-ither the vits, in Foreign Affairs (Fall 1985), Council
on Foreign Relations, 58 East 68th St.,
New York, N.Y. 10021.
In November 1973, the U.S. Congress-reacting to America's recent troubles in an undeclared war in Indochina-sought to tighten its grip on future U.S. military commitments. The legislators passed the War Powers Act. It required the president to consult with Congress before introducing armed forces "into situations where imminent involve- ment in hostilities is clearly...