machine three or four times every day, may never set foot in a pasture.
The milk, Chasan says, "probably won't see the light of day until you pour it into a glass." From the cow, it travels through tubes to a refrig- erated storage tank and then is trucked to a processing plant. There, it is pasteurized heat to kill bacteria. It is homogenized (to keep the cream from separating) by being forced at high pressure through steel mesh that breaks fat globules into tiny particles.
Since 1960,...
Dale Harris, in Beautiful Trifles Connoisseur (April 1983), P.O. BOX 10120,
Des Moines, Iowa 50350.
Peter Carl Faberge (1 846-1 920) was the jeweler to the Tsars. In a way, his elaborate jeweled Easter eggs symbolized the decadence of Impe- rial Russia.
Most of Fabergk's creations were domestic items-picture frames, parasol handles, cigarette cases. "Playful, tiny, elegant, designed to en- chant, not to dazzle, they must have helped to mitigate the formal splendor of court life," writes...
Dale Harris, in Beautiful Trifles Connoisseur (April 1983), P.O. BOX 10120,
Des Moines, Iowa 50350.
Peter Carl Faberge (1 846-1 920) was the jeweler to the Tsars. In a way, his elaborate jeweled Easter eggs symbolized the decadence of Impe- rial Russia.
Most of Fabergk's creations were domestic items-picture frames, parasol handles, cigarette cases. "Playful, tiny, elegant, designed to en- chant, not to dazzle, they must have helped to mitigate the formal splendor of court life," writes...
Americans and Europeans is being assumed a growing labor force of Pakistanis, Filipinos, and Koreans, whose cus- toms conservative Moslems find less threatening to traditional mores.
Indeed, Islamic fundamentalism is resurgent, Kraft reports. The reli- gious extremists who seized Mecca's Grand Mosque in 1979 accused the Saudi royalty of abandoning the true faith, and the resulting publicity stirred a back-to-basics movement. Public segregation of the sexes is enforced with growing rigor; Saudi...
Ellen Jones and Fred W. Grupp, in Population and Development Review (June 1983), The Population Council, 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017.
To some specialists, the sudden jump in the recorded number of infant deaths in the Soviet Union during the early 1970s was a sign of drastic deterioration in the quality of Soviet life [see "A Different Crisis," Murray Feshbach, WQ, Winter 19811.
Between 1971 and 1974 (the last year Moscow published official data on the subject), the...
the shock of the early 1970s' statistics, the rising rates in European Rus- sia have leveled off, and perhaps reversed. At the very least, they write, the Soviet Union during the 1970s suffered nothing like the "epidemic of infant deaths depicted in . . .the Western popular press."
"The Emergence of Democracy in Spain
Iberia's Fragile and Portugal" Kenneth Maxwell, in
Orbis (Spring 1983), Foreign Policy Re-
Democracies search Institute, 3508 Market St., Suite
350, Philadelphia,...
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