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Most people react by refusing to discuss politics or their discontent with the regime. The boredom level is probably higher in East Germany than in almost any other country in the world. "If you live quietly and keep your mouth shut," says an elderly woman in Leipzig, "then nobody bothers...
...play in the Sally League, Aaron could not eat or stay in the same hotels with the white players; he had to find lodgings in black homes. Aaron got a lot of verbal abuse during games,"recalls one of his former Jacksonville teammates, "but I never saw him react to it. He'd come to the park by himself, never joining in the clubhouse kidding and agitating. He was like a phantom. You never heard him, and away from the park, you never...
...appeared that someone had just fed is goldfish some LSD, and everyone was naturally curious about how they would react. Since goldfish are not articulate it was difficult to tell. Some people thought the fact that the goldfish were swimming in rapid circles indicated that the found the LSD stimulating and pleasurable. Others thought indicated that the goldfish were losing their minds, having swallowed an overdose, and that in any case it was cruel and improper to vivisect goldfish in this manner. Still others said, in effect, that swimming in rapid circles is to goldfish what lying...
...Much of what is called golf pollution is something altogether imagined or emotional," says Norio Nomura, an official at the Ministry of Construction in Tokyo. "When the most precious commodity in Japan-land-gets grabbed up fast, the people react sharply and emotionally." Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, a devoted golfer, adds: "Golf courses retain greenery. Japan needs more greenery and more golf courses...
...dock. His wife's optometry business is three blocks away; stores and schools are just as close. Says Ruhr: "There is a little less of the bad things here?drugs, pollution. Being way up here, people have had a chance to see the crest of the wave coming and react to it. There's an attitude, too, that we've got a nice little thing and let's keep it that...