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...town. A probably not atypical first sniff of the tragedy occurred at our house. Daddy was working upstairs at the computer when Caroline, age three, called from the family room that the sound had gone off on "Clifford." I went downstairs and found the remote, figuring Caroline had hit Mute. That didn't work, and I surfed a few stations. Four (NBC) showed a test pattern as did Three (ABC). Obviously a cable problem. By the time I passed 13 again, video as well as audio was gone. I found kids' programming on 21 out of New Jersey, and went...
...amphetamines. Prostitutes work the crowds. Dancers spin fire chains over their heads alongside ladyboys on raised platforms. The music is deafening, dominating. Those too bombed to dance hug their knees and watch the palms, the sparkle of the sea swells and the men urinating in the waves like some mute moonlit video...
...Pramoedya Ananta Toer, author of The Buru Quartet and The Mute's Soliloquy, is a former political prisoner
...Taipei street where the ramshackle offices of most of the city's funeral companies are located reveals a world that is at least murky, if not outright illicit. At the sight of a journalist, most of the morticians disappear through back doors or behave as if they are mute. One, Lo Shuan-lin of the Lucky Flower Village Funeral Co., complains his police informants are charging too much. "The cops want $600 for a corpse," he says, adding that the high prices are eating away at the funeral companies' bottom lines, forcing them to pursue customers more "aggressively...
...running a car's turbocharger in traffic. The result for Parkinson's patients is that their condition oscillates between hyperactivity while they are on L-dopa and immobility when they are not. Pharmacologists have been searching for 30 years for a drug to combine effectively with L-dopa and mute the turbocharger effect, but none has emerged...