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...S” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art work by Susie Kle... ................................ 74 THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPING A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY ......................................... 76 LAW ENFORCEMENT ........ ...t to a Third World nation just trying to get its overpopulated head above water. The globalized ocean was drowning this rural, impoverished, overpop... ...obalized ocean was drowning this rural, impoverished, overpopulated land. Water is an apt analogy. You need water to live, but too much and you drow... ...uistic sea legs. —―Gentlemen, I am Gopol Ghosh. I welcome you to our country.‖ 4 —―Mr. Ghosh, we are deeply honored that you would tak... ... Shiva and the solid roofs would offer some protection from the sheets of water that the gods would dump from the sky to cool the 110 to 120 degree ... ...this ancient plain. There were no sacred cows blocking our way. This country was too poor to support the Brahma bulls that wandered aimlessly i... ...s--but so often the prisoners of our own 5 decisions. So often jailed by our traditions. So often mired in the confinement of our helplessness. ... ...in the water table over the last three decades. The poor water management by the government has resulted in 40% of India‘s farms having no irrigatio...

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...R RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art Work by Susie Klein... ...a limit.‖ --―Touche‘ And Con is a retired businessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. L... ...s who like Szechwan and Thai.‖ --―My taste buds have been destroyed by jalapenos and habaneras so I‘ll go for your hottest recommendation. Wha... ...yond and seek more important goals, then we will find that happiness is a by-product of our life quest. Your famous historian Arnold Toynbee said th... ...e life satisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra mone... ...There are few universal ethical or legal standards. Treason against one‘s country is one. Murder of a person in your own society is also very common... ...arents who will soon die, leaving them orphans in a country without food, water but with genocidal warfare, show an intelligent and loving designer ... ...ry classes put hydrogen and oxygen together? Hasn't it always resulted in water? Two hydrogens and one oxygen make water. What if yesterday in a sma... ...ppened it would not disprove the theory of the fundamental ingredients in water--it would only make it somewhat less than certain. It would just redu...

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...IVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art work by Suzie Kl... ...ems that work in a modern and globalized world. Kino, as a new country, didn‟t have to endure the problems that plagued China during the ... ...peasants of a few decades ago have been reduced as they have been absorbed by death or the cities. The uneducated masses have evolved into a highly ... ... at least in part responsible for the over two million prison inmates in my country. The 5 big question is where is the best balance between the d... ...ckshaw from the airport, but my entourage and I were escorted from the jet by Madam Ching, the president of Kino, in a hydrogen powered limousine. Th... ...iar in the oriental paintings of days gone by. Another featured an immense waterfall cascading down its face. Larger than Niagara, more impressive t... ...n society to us. But here in Jingjing was a city, and perhaps even a whole country, that seemed to be able to rise above the commonplace and to prod... ...conomy. Still, she warned, Kino was contemplating a war to stop the air and water pollution of the United States and Europe which was endangering the... ...he West, our machinery and robots now do the work that the peasant and the water buffalo used to do. So we don‘t offer farm subsidies. The farmers p...

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...ER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art work by Suzie Kl... ... Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ......................................................... ......................................................................... 42 WATER CONSERVATION ........................................................... .................. 72 3 THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING From one of the two most advanced countries of ... ...meet our scraggly clan. We are so excited to be here and learn about your country.” —“Commander, we are honored that you have included our fai... ...on. But what impressed me most was the cleanliness of the place. I swear by the gods of Tide and Tidy Bowl that I never saw a single piece of litt... ...ll us that it takes 2.2 children per family to keep the population stable. By limiting families to only two children a society might insure itself o... ...than is Kino‟s. They lead the world in photovoltaic solar power and fresh water nanotechnology. We are still into telecommunications and computers, ... ...esterday--a yesterday with no global warming, no terrorism, no famines, no water shortages, no nuclear threats. That „once upon a time‟ era may not h...

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