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...sheer passage of time has helped to heal some wounds. But it has left a certain fatalism. In Viet Nam, the G.I.'s absurdist, shrugging slogan was "It don't mean nuthin'." Today Jim Garnett, a Seattle carpenter who served as an Army supply clerk, says, "It was just something we all went through. Like when you were a kid and your old man comes home drunk at night. He wakes everybody up, everybody knows what's going on, and it makes everyone real uncomfortable. But in the morning, no one talked about...
...around his suite with a dab of toilet paper stuck on his still-damp face, praying that it will stop bleeding before he goes and he won't have to look stupid. This is not a man who will need industrial-strength Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion to heal his face after the razor has left it as dry as Utah. This is not a man who will accidentally leave a spot of shaving cream on his carlobe and not notice it until 4 p.m., by which time countless people will have determined that be is an idiot...
...excessive ethnocentric behavior," which he calls "dysfunctional to the egalitarian goals of parity for Blacks in institutional participation." The professor never defines "excessive" ethnocentricity, but he constantly puts down this quality in favor of "cosmopolitanism." But this feeling of ethnic belonging is crucial in motivating these future doctors to heal and not to steal, future lawyers to make justice work and not just make money. It creates a Black social conscience that must be instituted in college so that it is not just skin deep...
Going further, Eisner points out that none of the bombardier's chemicals are unique to the insect. Hydrogen peroxide is often a by-product of metabolism in the cell. Phenols, the chemical group to which hydroquinones belong, are employed by many plants and primitive animals to heal and disinfect wounds. "The beetle didn't invent anything," says Eisner. "It just found novel uses for existing elements...
...Bible, as he did in 1981, opened to Chronicles 7: 14 ("If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land...