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...remarkable phenomena of the age. It has put itself (in the phrase of a Coca-Cola executive) "always within an arm's length of desire." And where there is no desire for it, Coke creates desire. Its advertising, which garnishes the world from the edge of the Arctic to the Cape of Good Hope, has created more new appetites and thirsts in more people than an army of dancing girls bearing jugs of wine. It has brought refrigeration to sweltering one-ox towns without plumbing, and it has transformed men one generation removed from jungle barter into American salesmen with...
...Gordy Sheer came within 22/1,000ths of a second of the mighty Germans, who had collected a gold, a silver and a bronze in the previous three Olympics. Zipping down the track in their lemon yellow suits, the Americans (who recorded with their two teammates a theme song titled Arctic Evil Knievels) pumped their fists as they saw their 0-for-27 Olympic-medal streak...
...like the opposite of a disaster, but every weather anomaly has its dark side. In a normal year, for example, the winter storm that hit New England and southern Canada in January might have dumped a thick blanket of snow on the region. Instead rain fell on low-lying arctic air and glazed everything in sight with thick layers of ice, knocking out power to 4 million people in one of the worst natural disasters in Canadian history...
Counter's scientific research over the years has included mapping the cricket brain, studying acupuncture in the Republic of China and studying why Eskimo men go deaf, which also led to his discovery of the half-Eskimo children of American Arctic explorers Matthew A. Henson and Robert E. Peary in Northwest Greenland...
Should you wonder about whom to look for, Maynard's light, graying beard and Caribbean accent are unmistakable. He might even make you forget the arctic climate for a few delusional moments...