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Furthermore, the erotic and sexual aspects are stretched to a sometimes offensive pitch. The constant return to the one theme rebounded on its intent--to awaken our minds to the issue--by hitting us over the head too many times...
Alas, the new economic Golden Age that seemed within reach in the Soaring Sixties failed to materialize. More than any other event, the Arab oil embargo and stunning price boosts of late 1973 signaled to the world that the long party was over. Those hammer blows did more than awaken the , West from its unconscious assumption that cheap energy and other natural resources would always be amply available; the price increases acted as a kind of gigantic consumer tax that gave a mighty push to the overlapping forces of inflation and unemployment that have plagued the industrial nations ever since...
...Cuban people are now beginning to awaken to the situation. Thousands of workers have begun to organize an independent trade union. Recently, five trade unionists were sentenced to death and saved only through the mobilization of world opinion. Tens of workers have been sent to prison, and eleven farmers are facing the death penalty because they burned their crops rather than sell them to the government at prices that were unjust...
Bundled in colorful silks, the newborn Keiko Shirato was taken by her parents to a neighborhood Shinto shrine, where a white-gowned priest pronounced blessings for a long and healthy life. On three childhood birthdays she also visited Shinto shrines, clapping her hands and clanging bells to awaken the gods so she could pray to them. In 1980 Keiko used Buddhist omens to select a propitious wedding day. But she exchanged Christian vows with her fiancé in a small chapel at one of Tokyo's elegant hotels. Keiko, now 26 and a mother, expects that some...
McMahon says her favorite type of patient to monitor is the victim of "sleep terror," the "most interesting and scariest" disorder she's seen since she began to train as a technician at Mass General 13 years ago. Such a patient will awaken from non REM (rapid eye movement) of non dream sleep, in terror for no apparent reason...