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JOHANNESBURG: Insect Invasion They hiss, bare their teeth and squirt a noxious black goop. The South African rainy season has brought an influx of so-called Parktown Prawns. Not really crustaceans, the brawny, pink, 10-cm- long king crickets are infesting the gardens of affluent suburbs in ever increasing numbers. Some residents insist they are pollution-induced mutants; others tell of ferocious guard dogs driven off by the bugs. One woman claimed her children were traumatized after encountering an insect in their bedroom, and demanded to sleep in the car. Experts say the insects are harmless--good news, since there...
While a large segment of public broadcasting's audience is educated and affluent, lower income individuals make extensive use of it as well. CPB President Richard Carstone testified that 76 percent of his listeners do not have a college degree. And CPB's programs are particularly important for these poorer families, where educational opportunities are already bleak...
Sadly, in the food revolution as in everything else, the poor are getting stuck with the greasy end of the stick. The affluent like to gorge on the kinds of high-fiber, heart-smart foods that were once relegated to the global peasantry: polenta, lentils, kale, bulgur wheat. Meanwhile, the fat-filled, heart-dumb foods once favored by kings and courtiers have been sedimenting down the socioeconomic scale. And, oh, the joys of nouveau low-income food, in its ever more wanton and promiscuous forms -- fries topped with melted cheese spread, nachos topped with everything, burritos buried in sour cream...
...wherever you sit at the national smorgasbord, whether you dine off Styrofoam or Limoges, there's the same relentless struggle against the encroachments of billowing flesh. Affluent people have better weapons, of ) course -- StairMasters and NordicTracks -- but even they are sometimes forced to fly first class just to find seats that will accommodate their thighs...
Even though Treasurer Robert Citron was the only elected Democrat in the government of affluent and archconservative Orange County, California, he seemed almost to own his job. People liked his folksy habit of sending out tax bills with slogans that rhymed ("Taxes paid on time never draw fines"). And they really liked the remarkably high returns that Citron earned on the billions of dollars of county funds that he managed -- income that paid for such things as gang-busting police drives in a time of tight budgets. It was thus not surprising that Citron easily won a seventh term this...