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Roughly 6% of American adults are alcoholics or "problem drinkers," and U.S. law persists in treating even those who peacefully litter the streets as criminals rather than sick people...
Lying 75 air miles east of Puerto Rico, the islands still have the scrubbed and simple air of a fishing village. Though most of the residents are Negroes, racial tensions are minimal. Litter is as uncommon as unemployment and crime. In the past decade, the burgeoning tourist trade has brought luxury hotels, excellent restaurants and chic stores. A free port provides luxuries at low prices: a fifth of Tanqueray gin sells for $1.85 v. $5.98 in New York...
...Nazi drag, turned up to turn on: some were seen holding lost children or gently shaking tambourines. Not a single fight marred the Be-In, and as the sun went down (to the sullen wail of Ginsberg blowing a conch shell), the forgathered hippies quietly cleared every bit of litter from the park. Officials later said that they had never seen so large a crowd leave so clean a field...
Though he fled Ireland-that "sow that eats its own litter"-Joyce was never far from home in thought. His loving hatred for it burned fiercely till he died. He was, as Ellmann puts it neatly and memorably, "a Parnell...
Wheeling around a highly elliptical path, 1866 I is being gradually broken up by solar radiation, and the gravity of the sun and the larger planets. In the process, it has left a trail of countless meteoroids that now litter its entire orbital track...