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...that they will ever catch on. Both the Water Bedlam (skippered by Tinker Lindsay, Tad Paul, and Lisa Noll of Adams) and the Delta Queen (manned by Henry Hardy and Terry Valenzuela of Adams House) ended up upside down. Apologists blamed the officials' launch for causing the spills, but cooler heads pointed to a basic instability of design. The crew of the Water Bedlam was somewhat compensated for their pains by walking off with the "Cholera Cup," awarded to the first contestant to fall in the Charles, and live. When asked his first reaction upon hitting the water...
Hutchinson is a widower. "I never meet any ladies at the hocky rink, so there I am," he said. He has an interest in mixers and one of his favorite lines for a girl is, "What do you hear around the water cooler...
...annual crop of desktop evergreens and water cooler wreaths attest, Christmas permeates every branch of the workaday world. In this holiday season, however, office parties, business gifts, Christmas cards to customers and year end bonuses to employees are not as pervasive as in previous years. Caution about the economy, confusion over Phase 11, and a generally rising level of employee sophistication have combined to produce a crunch that is taking away those Christmas extras...
...From the viewpoint of hagiography, the martyr is the ultimate Christian hero, the most noble of saints. Sociology, with a cooler eye, sees him as something else: a special kind of social deviant. As Sociologist Robert K. Merton points out, the "historically significant nonconformist," his own definition of martyr, often risks his life for a variety of motives, some noble, some not. There are cases, he notes, in which martyrdom may be little else than "an expression of primary narcissism" or "a need for punishment." Like Camus's Rebel, or Peter Viereck's "unadjusted man," the martyr...
...undertake such a role is the growing realization that there is much unfinished business at home. Japan's per capita income of $1,560 is now the highest in Asia, but ranks only 14th in the free world. Japanese consumers can now afford what they call the three Cs?cooler (air conditioner), color television and car?that their U.S. and European counterparts also cherish. But Japan's economic miracle was financed by sacrificing needed social improvements in favor of industrial investment, which has been running at an annual rate of $28 billion. The average Japanese thus hears constantly about...