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...author writes, were widely regarded as "little defective adults, sodden with original sin," which could only be squeezed out of them by cramping disciplines. One of nanny's first jobs was to institute rules and punishments regulating eating and elimination. All food on the plate had to be eaten, or it would appear at the next meal. Failure to perform potty at the proper hour (training began at six weeks) brought the certain retribution of laxative powder. Nannying appears to have provided parents with some peculiar satisfactions. As proof that the popularity of the system spread, the author...
Last night I went to a movie. It had a lot of advertisements going for it so I figured it oughta be a good night for a change. I figured wrong. I hadn't eaten in about 24 hours and felt sort of sick. Three boxes of popcorn didn't help. The theatre didn't pass out any blankets at the door either. I wish they had 'cause the air conditioners were churning it up like they thought the Sahara desert was due to blow in through the door any minute. I had to leave before...
...feminist was often eaten up by a rage that hungered for nothing less than a total annihilation of the male dominated system. But nobody likes a woman who is angry. Her male friends would shy away from her with a "she'll get over it" condescension, and their condescension would fortify her outrage. You feel ugly fighting with a shrew's snarl, though. It is like using brass knuckles on a balloon for a punching bag. And you begin to wonder if you are worth liking after...
...arriving in generous amounts -sorghum and grain along with $24 million in other aid from the U.S., plus a total of $50 million from the U.N., Russia, China, and the Common Market countries. But matters are often so desperate that grain for cattle is eaten by people, while critical breeding stock is slaughtered for meat. Existing livestock-mostly sheep, goats and camels -have chewed up all the food cover in sight, and the ecological balance has been so savaged that experts say recovery of the land's food-generating potential may be as much as 30 years away...
Best of all, RAG1 cannot harm other life in the ocean. "We took the bacteria from nature," says Gutnick. "They are there and they are fastidious about what they like and do not like." When the bacteria run out of oil, they conveniently die and are themselves eaten by fish...