D. M. Lavigne, in Queen's Quar- Symbolism terly (Autumn 1978), Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L3N6.
The fate of the harp seal, Canada's most publicized wildlife species, has become the subject of a complex and emotional debate between seal hunters and environmental groups. Since the early 1960s, North Ameri- can conservationists have campaigned vigorously to abolish the early spring seal hunt in the northwest Atlantic, focusing on the clubbing to death of white-pelted harp seal...
Ralph L. Keeney, Ram B. Kulkarni,
and Keshaven Nair, in TechnologyReview (Oct. 1978), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02 139.
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With demand for natural gas on the increase and domestic production on the wane, the United States may be importing as much as 1.6 trillion cubic feet of gas per year 1985 (100 times the current rate), according to industry predictions.
For shipment by sea (from Algeria, for example), the gas can be con- verted to a liquid tha...
Ralph L. Keeney, Ram B. Kulkarni,
and Keshaven Nair, in TechnologyReview (Oct. 1978), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02 139.
NOWEfqergy S~U~~S
With demand for natural gas on the increase and domestic production on the wane, the United States may be importing as much as 1.6 trillion cubic feet of gas per year 1985 (100 times the current rate), according to industry predictions.
For shipment by sea (from Algeria, for example), the gas can be con- verted to a liquid tha...
discouraging efficient production-in order to pro- vide low-cost food to politically volatile city dwellers.
Wealthy, industralized countries respond to Third World food prob- lems on the basis of domestic politics and economic self-interest (e.g., controlling the home market for commodities like rice and sugar to protect their own producers). The Western nations have cut their finan- cial aid to Third World agriculture since 1975 and have still not estab- lished an international system of grain...
the mid-1980s or early 1990s, "when the specter of imminent oil shortages begins to haunt the world," pressures for major advances in the real price of oil can only grow.
It is essential, Levy argues, that the oil-exporting and oil-importing countries work constructively together to help the OPEC nations use their oil revenues wisely and to maintain a pricing system that will not endanger the non-communist world's economic and political system. "We cannot much longer afford a situation...
Diana Tril-
ling, in Partisan Review (no. 4, 1978), Bos-
ton University, 19 Deerfieid St., Boston,
Mass. 02215.
A new presence has arrived on the literary scene, says critic Trilling. This is the liberated heroine, "a fictional creation whose first concern is the exploration and realization of female selfhood."
No sudden apparition, she has been evolving throughout literary his- tory. From Clytemnestra and Antigone, to Henry James's Isabel Archer and the modern creations of Joan...
Stephen J. Whitfield, in The South Atlantic Quarterly (Autumn 1978), Duke University Press, P.O. Box 6697, College Station, Durham, N.C. 27708.
In his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) tells of scoring a propaganda success "among the powdered heads of Paris" simply refusing to wear a wig while serving as Ambassador to France from the rebellious American colonies. One and a half centuries later, Black Muslim leader Malcolm X abandoned attempts to tame his kinky red- dish hair...
the grandeur of Mecca during
his 1964 pilgrimage, he was frustrated the Arabs' passivity ex-
pressed in the phrase insha Allah ("God willing"). Like Franklin, he
believed in self-help as well as self-control.
Never mind that these three autobiographies have the usual errors
and omissions, says Whitfield (even the editors of the standard Yale
edition report that Franklin's Autobiography is "not notably accurate").
They stand as fascinating testaments to the belief that...
the introduction of mass vasectomy camps and liberalization of abor- tion laws. Major incentives for sterilization (e.g., payment of as much as 60 rupees in some areas) brought dramatic results: vasectomies jumped from 1.6 million in 1968 to 3.1 million in 1973. But red tape hampered the effort to provide inexpensive, legal abortions.
In April 1975, Indira Gandhi decided on a coercive approach, raising the legal age of marriage and pressuring men to submit to sterilization. The number of forced...