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...effects of unification, Jackson was struck by "how far they have come in so short a time -- and how discontented they are about it. A year ago, East Germany was choking on soft-coal fumes and immobilized by the clutter of failure." Now, he notes, the cities are cleaner, people are driving Volkswagens and buying VCRs, and yet "nobody is happy. Physical shabbiness has been replaced by a palpable psychic gloom." In western Germany, meanwhile, Jackson finds "crabbiness and penny pinching. It is as if achieving their dream of unity and unprecedented security were not worth the price...
Slowly, the east is beginning to look much like the west. Colorful storefronts and advertisements have covered some of the east's shabbiness. VWs outnumber spluttering Trabants. Blackened buildings are disappearing behind scaffolding as workers scrape away a half-century of grime. The air is cleaner...
...Ziploc talking finger. But late night is when TV's hucksters really get humming. Amazing baldness cures and miracle weight-loss plans. Kitchen tools and anticellulite treatments. Self-help courses and get-rich-quick schemes. Stick around: you'll learn all about Citrus Miracle, a spray cleaner made from "100% natural oranges," able to wipe out everything from oven grease to carpet stains. Or share a few teary minutes with Richard Simmons as he travels the country getting testimonials from converts to his Deal-a-Meal diet plan. Or learn how fulfilling your life can be with the Brain Supercharger...
...fair that includes two sets of pavilions: scientific ones that celebrate mankind's technological mastery of the universe and a clutch of foreign lands without masses of foreigners -- 11 cultural boutiques that fit around a man-made lagoon as a symbol of human fellowship. "Probably it's much cleaner here than some of those countries you would go to," says visitor Sandy Hyde of Hacienda Heights, Calif...
Flanked by half a dozen city officials and five cyclists in full protective gear, U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy (D-Mass) urged Cambridge residents Monday to hit the streets with bike pedals instead of gas pedals as part of a new Congressional drive to promote safer and cleaner alternatives to driving cars...