Word: habits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...VATICAN, as the saying goes, "thinks in centuries." Today, more than ever, this habit of mind may present drastic difficulties for a Church which must keep up with revolutions sexual, industrial and demographic, or today's flocks may outpace their shepherds' century-a-step crawl. The drama of a church falling behind the very people it is supposed to lead is the stuff of which great books are made. This, unfortunately, is not the book...
...beginnings of a cube backlash, though, are already apparent. Ballantine Books has published Not Another Cube Book, an anticube treatise that tells readers "How to Live with a Cubaholic" and "How to Kick the Habit." Entrepreneurs Steven and Roger Hill of Menlo Park, Calif., have produced what they call "the ultimate solution": the Cube Smasher, a plastic paddle guaranteed to pound the puzzle to bits. So far they have sold 100,000. Those who resort to the Cube Smasher may also be interested in a paperback released this month by Tor Books. Its title: 101 Uses for a Dead Cube...
...somewhere else. No one knows where. This most neurotic, intelligent and wonderfully expressive feline made its U.S. debut with Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes in the 1870s. The spirited, assertive Somali is a long-haired Abyssinian with agouti coloring-each hair is individually striped with brown or black. With its habit of pacing back and forth, it often resembles a miniature mountain lion...
...permeating fact of Finnish life, one that is not likely to change soon. Nor will the country's relationship with the Soviets, no matter who is elected President in January. As one Western diplomatic observer puts it, "Kekkonen anticipated Soviet objections for so long, it became a habit." The habit is one the Finns show little inclination of wanting-or daring-to break...
Returnable containers encourage the habit of saving, rather than waste. They have also already proved profitable, especially to citizens willing to pick up roadside litter and drag it to a nearby recycling station. Churches and schools now raise funds by organizing collection drives. So do individuals. Arthur Bush, 12, of Portland, Me., makes anywhere from $3 to $7 each time he devotes a few hours to rummaging for returnables in trash cans and parking lots; Adalbert ("Al") Politz, 56, of Bloomfield, Conn., made enough sorting through nearby Hartford's refuse last year to buy his son a Christmas present...