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...into an entirely different culture and a whole new set of environmental details. This time a political regime, which is mercifully left sketchy, has decreed that all forms of life down to the merest microbe are equal. Any aggression, even an argument, is a criminal act. People can only ingest something called E-diet, so insubstantial that men no longer sweat, urinate or defecate. Even so, they kill certain microscopic organisms simply by breathing. The command for general suicide goes out so that "the heinous crimes of murder and pollution committed by our race may in some small way find...
...Children are encouraged to visit their father's place of business. There they interrupt proceedings with a ritual cry: "Only one cavity!" Children may also be seen in the early morning, when they ingest the seven essential vitamins every child needs for perfect health. Toward evening they grow pale and cough until a powerful potion brings speedy relief...
...National Air Pollution Control Administration and the Environmental Control Administration. An intense activist, Johnson, 48, spends much of his time reminding Americans that "the human environment consists not only of land, air and water that give us life but also includes the food we eat, the drugs we ingest, and all the thousands of products which we consume or use in this complicated world." Johnson and his staff of 231 can use lawsuits to gain compliance with new federal antipollution laws. But he prefers to use his powers of persuasion...
Drinking a Tubful. Opponents point out that fluorides can be poisonous, and indeed are used in some pesticides. True, but the determining factor is the concentration. A 150-lb. man will get sick if he ingests .25 gm. of fluoride in one day, very sick on 1 gm., and will die with 4 to 8 gm. To ingest even that first .25 gm., he would have to drink more than half a bathtubful of water (42 gal.) containing 1 p.p.m., or, for 1 gm., more than three bathtubfuls (or 276 gal.). Long before he could become ill from the fluoride...
...literature and electronics, the Japanese urge to modernize has had much the same effect. Japanese novelists often study Western models as faithfully and earnestly as their engineering brothers ingest technical manuals. The result is that too often the final product resembles nothing so much as a dubbed-in Oriental film. Occasionally, though, a novelist, borne along on his own exquisite and honorable psychological insight, transforms a Western genre into a vehicle for approaching a universal truth...