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...family moved to Savannah; Leola and her daughter lived with an aunt while the two boys were sent to the well-tended home of their grandfather Myers Anderson. For the first time Thomas lived in a house with indoor plumbing. Anderson, who made a decent living selling ice and coal from the back of a pickup truck, could barely read but was a strong believer in education. He enrolled Thomas in a nearby school staffed by what white Catholics called "nigger nuns." They rode in the back of the bus with their students on field trips and rapped the palms...
...talked to Germans about the 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 Physical shabbiness has been replaced by a palpable psychic gloom."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...
...This is unjust," he says bitterly. "Since I paid in higher than average contributions, I feel robbed of my life's savings." Not that Hubner can be accused of living in splendor. "I live on the fourth floor in a three-room apartment with oven heating. I carry the coal up myself...
...ring. He is sometimes referred to behind his back as St. Paul. Still, he does not close off argument and is willing to change his mind. Unlike most Democrats, he supports nuclear power. His conversion occurred after experts convinced him of the lasting, dire effects of oil and coal on the environment...
...should accommodate only when his fate and that of nature are inextricably bound up.The most urgent accommodation must be made when the very integrity of man's habitat -- e.g., atmospheric ozone -- is threatened. When the threat to man is of a lesser order (say, the pollutants from coal- and oil-fired generators that cause death from disease but not fatal damage to the ecosystem), a more modulated accommodation that balances economic against health concerns is in order. But in either case the principle is the same: protect the environment -- because it is man's environment...