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...Most of these places are famous in American folklore and in grim modern history. Their names evoke images of riots in the yards, of searchlights and sirens, of tin cups banged in unison on the tables of gothic mess halls. The normal reality of prison life is, of course, calmer, but no less extraordinary. These are societies made up largely of people who have robbed, attacked and murdered other people, after all, and of those who oversee them. No world they compose could be anything but bizarre...
...that beta blockers have uses beyond their current applications. Good results have been reported in the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychological disorders. A West German study shows that beta blockers can change Type A behavior, a pattern of aggressiveness linked to a higher risk of heart attack, into calmer Type B behavior...
...true that if the Social Security system can somehow stay afloat through the '80s, it will sail into calmer waters for a long period beginning around 1990. For one thing, a 1% tax increase-half a point each on workers and employers-goes into effect that year. For another, the number of people retiring from 1990 through the rest of the century will be held down by the low birth rates of the Depression and World War II years. Meanwhile, members of the 1946-64 baby-boom generation will be hard at work, presumably earning rising incomes and paying...
Outwardly, at least, Poland was calmer than at any time since martial law was imposed. Poles from the countryside told a TIME correspondent that their villages had never really been touched by martial law. But most Poles were still unable to move freely outside the region in which they live, make telephone calls or receive uncensored mail. Every evening at 10:45 the streets and highways were suddenly transformed into speedways as thousands of Poles rushed toward home to beat the 11 p.m. curfew. A considerable number-5,500 according to the government, and as many as ten times that...
...Sidney Petersen. "We are not going to get out of it in the next 20 months." Adds James Howell, chief economist for the First National Bank of Boston: "Wall Streeters remind me of a mother on her daughter's wedding night. They just need to be a lot calmer, and we'll get through this...