Michael Fumento, in The Ameri- can Spectator (Nov. 1990), 2020 N. 14th St., Ste. 750, Arlington, Va. 22216-0549.
For years environmentalists have called for the development of cheap, clean alter- natives to gasoline. In November, they were rewarded when Congress passed its landmark Clean Air Act. It requires, among other things, that localities that fail to reach clean air targets 1992 begin mixing "clean" fuels with gasoline to lower nollution. But while the Clean Air Act might make...
Michael Fumento, in The Ameri- can Spectator (Nov. 1990), 2020 N. 14th St., Ste. 750, Arlington, Va. 22216-0549.
For years environmentalists have called for the development of cheap, clean alter- natives to gasoline. In November, they were rewarded when Congress passed its landmark Clean Air Act. It requires, among other things, that localities that fail to reach clean air targets 1992 begin mixing "clean" fuels with gasoline to lower nollution. But while the Clean Air Act might make...
PERIODICALS
can be perverse.
When trees are cut for timber, for in- stance, the profits from their sale are added to GNP. But nothing is subtracted from GNP for the loss of the forest. Econo- mists do, however, count money spent to combat environmental destruction and pollution. Thus, the $40 billion that Postel says Americans dole out to doctors each year to treat pollution-related ailments is, strangely enough, counted as wealth. De- spite its devastating effect on Alaska's wild- life, the 1...
speculators, "with ostensi- blv no attention to versonal taste and de- sire, thrown up to cover the most land and make the most money, using the materials and technology of the 1870s, [have been] considered superior bv manv of those liv- ing in them to the new flats designed the best planning authorities using good architects?" Because most people, espe- cially those raising families, share a "taste for the low-rise, the small-scale, the unit that gives some privacy, some control,...
Phillip Booth: "On the far side/of the storm/window." The break is used as a trick to interrupt the flow of the poem and call attention to the cleverness of its author.
Are there any antidotes to the workshop syndrome? Dooley knows that little can be done about the larger cultural trends and
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smaller academic imperatives that foster mediocrity. But he does have a few hints for buddins McPoets. Avoid obvious cli-
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Philip Norton, in West European Politics (July 1990), 11 Gainsborough Rd., London El 1 1%.
After seven centuries, the British Parlia- ment is experiencing, in typically subdued British fashion, a revolution in its ways. Over the last 20 years, says Norton, a po- litical scientist at the University of Hull, Parliament has become more aggressive and influential. For better or for worse, it has come in some ways to resemble the
U.S. Congress.
Britain's political tradition favors a strong executive, a...
Tom Bethell, in Reason (Oct. 1990),
Trouble On the Kibbutz
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To Israelis, the kibbutz is as vital a national symbol as the family farm is to Americans. Like the American family farm, the kibbutz is an ideal that has been sustained a few; at no time has more than three per- cent of Israel's population lived on a kib- butz. Now, according to Bethell, a Reason contributing editor, kibbutzim share one other similarity with family farms...
Tom Bethell, in Reason (Oct. 1990),
Trouble On the Kibbutz
2716 Ocean Park Blvd., Ste. 1062, Santa Monica, Calif. 90405.
To Israelis, the kibbutz is as vital a national symbol as the family farm is to Americans. Like the American family farm, the kibbutz is an ideal that has been sustained a few; at no time has more than three per- cent of Israel's population lived on a kib- butz. Now, according to Bethell, a Reason contributing editor, kibbutzim share one other similarity with family farms...
James L.Does Congress Payne, "The Permanent Democratic Congress" Norman Need to Be Fixed? Ornstein, and "Public Opinion and the 'Congress Problem' " by
Everett Carl1 Ladd, in The Public Interest (Summer 1990), 11 12 16th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Who is to blame for Washington's long deadlock over the federal budget deficit and other national issues? Congress has emerged as the favorite culprit of many critics. They tend to think that only struc- tural changes-limitations o...
Willard Sterne Randall, in American Heritage (Sept.-Oct. 1990), 60 Fifth Ave., New York, Benedict Arnold N.Y. 10011.
In grade school, every child learns about the treacherous Benedict Arnold, who coldly sold out his country for �£20,000 But Randall, a historian at the University of Vermont, writes that Arnold's treason can be explained, if not excused, a "long fuse of bitterness."
Arnold's vanity and brashness made him an outsider throughout his military career....