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...their hearts. "The French are deeply insecure," says Dominique Moisi, associate director of the Institute for International Relations in Paris. "The Germans are asserting themselves, and we are growing fearful. Our fears may not be well founded, but we have them nonetheless, and a fearful people will not always distinguish carefully between myth and reality." Recent polls nevertheless show that large majorities in most Western countries support the idea of German unification, with young people more strongly in favor than those who remember the war. In France 68% of those polled said peace would be strengthened by unification...
Johnston was quick to distinguish his intended vacation from the stereotypical Florida spring break. He anticipates making it to the beach on one evening at most...
Asian-Americans reflect a diversity of socioeconomic, historic, educational, ethnic, linguistic and cultural influences. Differences in English proficiency and degree of assimilation further distinguish Asian-Americans from one another. The common influence of Confucianism is almost negligible compared to these differences...
...Americans believe the microwave oven has made "life a lot better." Consumer demand is so keen that the food industry is racing to catch the microwave. Packaged products primarily designed to be hyperheated in these kitchen reactors have exploded into a more than $2 billion-a-year industry. To distinguish old-line cooking from microwave preparation, food-marketing experts are actually beginning to use "stovetop" as a verb (as in "Most Americans still stovetop dinner...
...have any hope of overcoming even our local problems, we have to overcome our mental ordering of the world into a series of unequal pairs. That doesn't mean abandoning attempts to distinguish better from worse. It simply means re-examining the automatic assumption of some equivalence between "better-worse" and "us-them...