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...conditioned movies, where they could breath in a little coolness. The touch of a barber's hot towel, or the simple process of swallowing hot coffee, was enough to make a shirt go limp or a woman's make-up shine greasily. In the packed and airless slums, tens of thousands slept on rooftops or fire escapes. The heat seemed even more pitiless out across the farm states, where farmers often worked from sunup to sundown, sweating in the fields or jolting behind the oven-like engine of a tractor...
Accusing Voices. Paris hadn't been easy. Sekoto couldn't afford a studio, painted instead in his small, airless hotel room, laying his canvases on the floor where a small square of light fell. Three weeks ago he began hearing accusing voices repeating "You're no good, Gerard. Your painting is no good." To escape the voices, he tried to drink poison, hang himself. Friends rescued him, sent him off to the asylum of Ste. Anne...
...tolerable verging on poor." Teacher appointments were based on political drag rather than merit, instructors had little incentive and virtually no leadership, and student guidance programs were unknown. Equally important, but less fundamental points concerned antiquated teaching methods, obsolete texts, the lack of adequate vocational training, hazardous, airless buildings, foul sanitary systems, poor medical facilities, and a short twenty-minute lunch period designed to develop a race of jack rabbits with east iron stomachs...
...landed 227 marines. Abashed by armed force and the jailing of their Communist leaders, the striking bagrinhos (dockwork-ers-literally, "shadfish") promised not to do it again. Minister of Labor Octacilio Negrão de Lima rushed into town, reiterated the Government's conveniently forgotten pledge to replace airless, lightless dockside tenements with modern housing. The workers accepted his offer of a 54% pay hike...
Despite their humble origins, microbes are as temperamental as coloraturas. They are fussy about temperature, about food, and about the company they keep. Some like plenty of air, some like none, and some govern their behavior according to whether they get it or not. In an airless, quiet place, yeast will produce wine ; in air it just reproduces itself. To keep such un reliable workers healthy, happy, and productive is the responsibility of a growing new species of industrial scientist, the biological engineer. His job: to reproduce on a factory scale biological processes and conditions none too easy to control...