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Moreover, when a court reviews the decision of a federal regulatory agency, it need not determine the "right" answers to such questions, anyway-only "the substantive and procedural adequacy of the rec- ord" that supports the decision.
Giving the courts more expertise might help them somewhat to grapple with scientific and technological litigation, Jasanoff and Nel- kin say. But it might also "divert attention from the public respo...
far the most promising application, say Wolsky and Gaines, is to take ground scrap or reclaimed rubber and mix it with asphalt. The result is a pavement that lasts up to three times longer than regular asphalt. This means big savings from decreased road maintenance-for a net energy savings of about 90,000 Btullb. This use could absorb all available discarded tires. However, the authors say, the method is un- likely to be widely adopted soon. The initial cost of reclaimed rubber is relatively high....
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and avoid strong Soviet competition for oil from OPEC, Mexico, and other noncommunist sources, Meyerhoff suggests, they should make it easier for the Soviets to get the advanced technology they need to solve their "energy crisis."
'Decline of Materials Intensiveness: The
U.S. Pulo and Paoer Industrv" bv Marc
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Slows Down Ross and Arthur H. Purcell, in Resources Policv (Dec. 1981), IPC Science and Technology Press Ltd., P.O. Box 63, W...
William P.
Libertine Dawson, in ESQ: A Journal of the Ameri-can Renaissance (4th quarter, 1981), De-partment of English, Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. 99164.
When Rip Van Winkle settled down for his long nap, he was the quin- tessential hen-pecked husband, and America was a tidy English colony. When he awoke 20 years later, on Election Day, Rip found his shrewish wife had died, and his peaceful, patriarchal village had been changed America's independence into a confused and quarrelsome...
incapacity, his "gun" having grown rusty.
In "Rip Van Winkle," Dawson concludes, Irving was subtly trying to remind his readers of "the connection between liberty and libertine." Still, Rip's life did end happily, as he settled back into the village without Dame Van Winkle. This, says Dawson, may reflect Irving's growing affection for independent America, despite his fears.
Lost in "'The Great Dark': Invisible Spheres, Formed in Fright" James C. Wilson,...
Dick (1851)-all searchers after knowledge of the world.
In "The Great Dark," Mark Twain suggests the inability of reason to comprehend the universe. We humans, Henry Edwards somberly re- flects, take great pride in our powerful "mental equipment," but, in lucid moments, "we see that intellectually we are no great things" and that "our best-built certainties are but sand-houses."
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Charles
Maechling, Jr., in Foreign Policy (Winter
Ailments 1981/82), P.O. Box 984, Farmingdale,
N.Y. 11737.
Argentina's military leaders have promised a return to civilian rule in a few years, but the road back to constitutional government will be diffi- cult, says Maechling, a Washington-based international lawyer. Three decades of "political chaos and economic mismanagement" and four years of urban terrorism and Army counterterror have brought chronic instability and conflict.
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the party itself. At its First Congress in 1921, the party called for a purely working-class revolution-at a time when there were only a million and a half industrial workers in China.
Later in that decade, when the Kremlin played mentor to the Chinese party, Stalin vastly underestimated the peasantry's potential; he imag- ined that the Chinese revolution need only triumph in a few cities, as happened in Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power in Moscow and Petrograd. Stalin's dream turned into...
"encircling the cities from the countryside." The heretical vision worked. But Mao's "realistic utopianism" turned into fantasy with the Great Leap Forward, which produced not abun- dance but hunger.
Yet, Schram argues, any effective national movement must have a vision of what should be. And new goals are under discussion in China today: "democracy" (variously defined) and "modernization." What China needs, he says, is a "new, realistic utopia . . ....
excluding Brussels from the plan.
Today, the plan is being only gradually implemented, and most policymaking power still remains with the central government; hence, says Covell, although there is relative quiet for the moment, the "re- gionalization" debate-and ethnic discord-are likely to continue.
Did French Reds "The French Communist Party and the
Beginnings of Resistance: September h&Nazis? 1939-June 1941" J. C. Simmonds, in
European Studies Review (Oct. 1981), 275
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