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...among the lucky ones. Foot-and-mouth disease, a centuries-old malady, continued its resurgence last week-rampaging through British farms, paralyzing the country's rural economy, draining public coffers and setting off yet another health panic in Europe. It even prompted soul-searching about the future of European agriculture and the safety of European food in an increasingly competitive, and hazardous, global marketplace. But the epidemic's most devastating impact was felt in picturesque English counties like Devon and Northumberland, by scores of businessmen even less fortunate than McInnes: despondent small farmers who watched entire livelihoods...
...measure of our own Puritanism-a Puritanism which suggests that pleasure must lie in the exclusive repository of expensive vacations; that the routine and the familiar must be devoted exclusively to the work-obsessed and fast-food-filled tedium that will make our panic-stricken two weeks of vacation (as compared with Europe's God-given minimum of a month) seem worth the 50 we have sacrificed to make them possible...
...into a panic that the building would turn into something else or go into...
...Afterward, Carmela finds Tony passed out on the floor (he's had another of his panic-attack blackouts) and he tells her the story. The way Chase handles the scene shows how this series is in a league above anything else on TV. On a network show - even in the heyday of "All in the Family" -Tony's wife would have to be a sympathetic counterbalance, the tolerant peacemaker. But Chase and Falco don't let Carm off the hook: She subtly betrays that she's not entirely comfortable with her daughter dating a black man either...
...Then again, that rending is "a process driven in large part by nonrational behavior." In other words, there's no reason to panic just yet, not least because nobody seems to be panicking just yet. "The weakness in sales of motor vehicles and homes has been modest, suggesting that consumers have retained enough confidence to make longer-term commitments, and, as I pointed out earlier, expected earnings growth over the longer run continues to be elevated...