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...Miami, worry about rising crime in all of the big cities. Elderly residents of St. Petersburg object to dirty streets; they also successfully prevented U.S. Steel from building a condominium that would have obstructed a view of the gulf. The people of the state want Florida to adopt a "no growth" policy that would protect their chosen havens against overcrowding...
...referendum, which won a 60 percent "yes" vote, called for "the City of Cambridge to make available child care without charge to all Cambridge residents who feel they have need of this service." This referendum victory made Cambridge the first city in the United States to adopt community-controlled child care as an official policy...
Perhaps it would not be amiss for the country to adopt a position close to the one allegedly voiced by Napoleon, to the effect that "history is only a fable agreed upon." Accordingly, whatever the truth of the claims summarized above under the first aspect of our subject, we might simply agree to say: "We've had a President and Vice-President with black ancestry. So what's all the excitement? Let's get on with taking care of business, with electing the people best capable of governing. And there's no need to panic if we have black blood...
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut once proposed that writers adopt a basic unit of "conscience measurement," to be called the "Stowe" in honor of the "only writer in history who had an effect on the course of world affairs." What disturbed Vonnegut, though, was the knowledge that people "having read Uncle Tom's Cabin and cried, feel that they have somehow dealt with the problem...
Many of their subjects spoke sympathetically of the handicapped, but they often reacted to the sight of deformity with involuntary revulsion: breaking into a sweat or feeling faint chills. Few of them wanted to be friends with a deformed person, much less to marry or adopt one. Most (63%) thought the victims should be kept out of sight in institutions. Although nobody said openly that the handicapped deserve to die, a number spoke guardedly of the merits of euthanasia on the grounds that "they probably would rather be dead...