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...fear of the dandruff police compels me to use it. I am not alone, either. All four shampoo bottles in my shower promise "relief from itching and flaking." One roommate, whose girlfriend wouldn't dump him even if he suddenly sprouted a third nostril, still uses the stuff religiously. ("Gosh, if she notices flakes, it's all over.") My roommate Rocco, who sports a bald spot the size of Australia (thanks to my unpolished hair-cutting skills) is certain that flakes will doom his hopes at romance...
...Navy teaches them to fight and to kill people with snout-mounted .45-cal. guns. Said Richard O'Barry, dolphin trainer for the 1960s television series Flipper and now an opponent of all captivity for the endearing mammals: "We capture them, we use them, we abuse them, then we dump them." Although dolphin expert Joseph Geraci of the University of Guelph in Ontario reported finding no signs that the San Diego center mistreats the creatures, the aquarium, which has made similar transfers before, put the plan on hold. Said executive director John Prescott: "We want to satisfy any anxiety raised...
...cynicism of the disaffected young. He was too quick, it was said, to detect the smell of society's insulation burning -- and to sigh "So it goes" -- when there was nothing more in the air than, say, a harmless whiff from a distant war or the neighborhood toxic-waste dump. No more; his news in Hocus Pocus is that our charred insulation no longer smolders. It has burned itself out, and civilization's great, tired machine is not dying, but blackened and dead...
Whatever the human consequences of the crisis, it has an even greater effect on many other living things. Fish, birds and countless creatures are crowded out, marooned or poisoned as industry, agriculture and municipalities reroute rivers, dry up wetlands, dump waste and otherwise disrupt the normal functioning of delicate ecosystems. The world is learning that there are limits to mankind's ability to move water from one place to another without seriously upsetting the balance of nature...
...short run, the U.S. has few options other than to dump its strategic oil reserves if it wants to increase supplies. Other much needed measures would have little if any impact for a year or more. But perhaps the latest crisis will finally drive home the point that America must take steps to keep its economic well-being from being hostage to the whims of faraway nations...