What will the international partnerships of the world laboratories
track down next, what new fuels, amalgams, alloys, seeds, cross-breeds,
unforeseen short cuts to power?
Whose guess is better than anybody else's on whether the breed of
fire-bringers is run out?
>From Carl Sandburg, "The People, Yes" (1936)
William Lockeretz
Tufts University
Medford, Mass.