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...Sheridan's School for Scandal, the prologue clucks hypocritically about rumormongering: "Caus'd by a dearth of scandal, should the vapours/ Distress our fair ones -- let 'em read the papers." That advice is still being followed at supermarket check-out counters. In Jane Austen's Persuasion, a shut-in hears neighborhood news: "Call it gossip if you will; but when nurse Rooke has half an hour's leisure to bestow on me, she is sure to have something to relate that is entertaining and profitable, something that makes one know one's species better." What the invalid learns is that...
...defense accord upset some Canadians, who fear that it could involve their country in Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, the space-based antimissile defense system better known as Star Wars. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger added to Canadian distress when he suggested in a television interview that American missiles could be stationed in Canada...
American farmers have been crying wolf for so long that their city cousins have mostly stopped listening. But along rural back roads last week, the expressions of anguish seemed genuine. Farmers sometimes differed about the causes of their distress, but they shared a frustration, almost a sense of shame, about their plight...
...older Americans are so fortunate. Worse off are old people living alone, especially elderly blacks, the very old and elderly women. Their financial distress, though, is not so much a function of aging as it is of education, race and their past employment, factors the council found "lead to low income at all ages." Older women are particularly vulnerable. They tend to stay single after a divorce or death, lowering household income. Widowed or divorced men, in contrast, remarry at seven times the rate of women...
...Judge Taketsugu Taket ruled that there is no right of solar access in California. He wrote, "Although the court finds that the complaint, of the Shers are very real both in the aspect of emotional distress and the reduction of potential property value, the injuries...are not ones that are afforded protection...in a court...