Chaco Canyon between A.D. 800 and 1250. Skilled builders and traders, they developed advanced irrigation systems and lived in massive, sophisticated pueblos. One multistoried complex contained some 800 rooms. Between 30 and 40 Anasazi towns were linked hundreds of miles of smooth dirt roads, some 30 feet wide. The roads also led to agricultural areas and rock quarries, indicating a highly organized network of farming, man- ufacturing, and commerce.
The calendar is as accurate as any known mechanism...
monitoring worldwide research and keeping records of discoveries, these institutes are starting to serve as reference centers for microbe specialists. They can help experts find and obtain strains they need, and identify projects and experiments that could benefit from microbe supplies on file. (Tens of thousands of microbe strains are catalogued in the system's directory.) They also train new microbe specialists from developing countries and promote new appli- cations of microbiology-such as water...
sending vast clouds of dust into the atmosphere, starting around 2000 B.C. In West Africa's Sahel, experts trace the re- gion's weak plant life to both overgrazing and slash-and-burn agricul- ture centuries ago. "Killer droughts" such as occurred in 1973-74 were probably a recurring result.
Humans have cleared 7 million square kilometers of tropical forest alone, equivalent to half the Earth's present jungle area. Forty percent of the rain forests of Africa and Brazil have been destroyed....
Kyshtym seriously malfunctioned. A cooling system foul-up crippled a breeder reactor near the Caspian Sea in 1973. In Czechoslovakia, one power station leaked radioactive gas in 1976 and radioactive waste water in 1977.
Will a strong "no-nuke" movement develop within the Soviet bloc? Probably not under the more repressive regimes in the USSR, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Rumania, say the authors. But in Poland and Hungary, where Western newscasts have alerted radio listeners...
the modernists-that middle-class morality, linearity, cause and effect, and transparent lan- guage cannot capture the chaos of 20th-century life. Disjunction, simul- taneity, and irrationality must be incorporated into literature. But the postmodernist must also remember that the bewildering works the modernists wrote as protests against traditionalism have made their point. We don't need any more Finnegan's Wakes, writes Barth. Post- modernists should give us books more readable than the forbiddingly...
the modernists-that middle-class morality, linearity, cause and effect, and transparent lan- guage cannot capture the chaos of 20th-century life. Disjunction, simul- taneity, and irrationality must be incorporated into literature. But the postmodernist must also remember that the bewildering works the modernists wrote as protests against traditionalism have made their point. We don't need any more Finnegan's Wakes, writes Barth. Post- modernists should give us books more readable than the forbiddingly...
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English at Boston University, contends that Dickens' landscape writing improved greatly during his career. His increasing interest in nature paralleled his growing concern with psychology.
The country settings of Oliver Twist (1838) offer a brief respite from the gritty, teeming urban environment that dominates the novel. But Dickens' countryside seems drawn from a fairy tale, with Oliver spend- ing his time picking wildflowers "for the embellishment of the breakfast-table"...
an "economic miracle" that has produced the world's 18th highest per capita GNP (behind Japan, ahead of Britain).
Naimark argues that Communist Party chief Erich Honecker's goals of creating a distinct East German sense of nationalism and of winning popular loyalty remain remote. Communist control depends largely on force-the sealed Western border, the Berlin Wall, and the 1.2 million Soviet and East German troops and policemen inside the GDR. Dis- satisfaction with the regime is widespread...
Peter Prewar Japan DUUS and Daniel I. Okimoto, in Journal of Asian Studies (Nov. 1979), Association for Asian Studies, 1 Lane Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109.
"Fascist," with its overtones of racism and repression, is a word often used to describe Japan just before World War 11. It is a word wrongly used, say Duus and Okimoto, Asia specialists at Stanford.
The mass movements, personality cults, and bloody purges that marked fascism in Germany, Italy, and Hungary...
Peter Prewar Japan DUUS and Daniel I. Okimoto, in Journal of Asian Studies (Nov. 1979), Association for Asian Studies, 1 Lane Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109.
"Fascist," with its overtones of racism and repression, is a word often used to describe Japan just before World War 11. It is a word wrongly used, say Duus and Okimoto, Asia specialists at Stanford.
The mass movements, personality cults, and bloody purges that marked fascism in Germany, Italy, and Hungary...