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While Arabs also employ some of the same gestures as Americans-they tease one another by sticking out their tongues-a few crucial gestures mean diametrically opposite things in the two cultures. When Arabs shake their heads from side to side, they are saying yes instead of no. Moreover, when Arabs mean no, they move the head upward (and click with the tongue), seeming, to Western eyes, to nod assent. Apparently, however, most foreigners find it easy to switch to the Arab system. Barakat relates the story of an English teacher in the Middle East whose wife had remained behind...
...snowball seeks a top hat, Prankster Tuck stalked his quarry from one campaign to the next. "Keep that man away from me," Nixon ordered his staff, who were seldom able to oblige. Ultimately, Nixon paid his adversary the highest compliment: in the 1972 campaign, the White House decided to employ a Dick Tuck of its own. As H.R. Haldeman testified last week, Donald Segretti was hired to adopt Tuck's techniques and use them against the Democrats...
...major source of income in 1952. Though farm and forest products remain a vital part of the economy, the gap has been widening. Over the past ten years, Minnesota has become one of the nation's leading "brain-industry" centers?more than 170 electronic and related technical businesses now employ more than 70,000 people. Food companies, however, still lead the state in employment. Minneapolis-based companies produce more than half the cakes in the nation, for example. Minnesota leads the U.S. in butter production, is second in dry milk, third in meat production...
...patient sufficiently pain-free to make mercy killing obsolete. Dr. Anderson practices in Britain where it is legal for a doctor to give heroin to a patient (usually a terminal-cancer victim) after morphine has ceased to be effective. In the U.S. it is unlawful for a physician to employ this most potent of all painkilling drugs even for a patient in extremis, for whom there can be no danger of addiction...
Although there is absolutely nothing wrong with Coop directors having outside business interests, some students are critical of such ties, especially because this is a university community which prides itself in its independence from outside interests. The Coop does employ business professionals because it is not a backyard operation. But therefore it should expect hostility from the many students who have a low regard for big business...