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Two thousand years ago, the streets of Rome had become fetid and knotted with traffic. Local rulers became so fed up that they declared: "The circulation of the people should not be hindered by numerous litters and noisy chariots." It was an early salvo in what would become an endless...
The two fall into predictable conversation patterns. Topic A: favorite movies. Topic B: long term aspirations. When silence gets the better of them, they look across the reporters’ table to the other couple involved in FM’s little experiment.
“This is a kind of experiment,” said Nancy Murray, an activist from the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
An old man and woman decide to conduct an experiment. To decide which sex is least faithful, several men and women are raised in total isolation from everyone but their caretakers—and then let loose in the outdoors. The human subjects eventually pair off and swear undying love...
“I don’t think we can live through this experiment,” he says. “If you look at Brookline, where smokers congregated in the clubs, nightlife doesn’t exist now that a smoking ban has been put into place...