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...turtle comes equipped with a standard-issue carapace Is there some naturally ordained allotment for human sheltt In 1920 the Russian "sanitary housing norm" decreed that each citizen was entitled to 100 sq. ft. of living space, an expansive ideal seldom achieved. Americans occupy at least 140 sq ft on average; by most of the world's standards, they live like caliphs The current constriction of their housing may make some Americans claustrophobic, but cross-cultural comparison might also remind them to be grateful for what they have It might encourage them, as well, to shift their perspectives outward...
...might be. Instead, Rousseau's Supermen would skillfully persuade men to listen to that part of their consciousnesses that instructs them to act as public-minded citizens and to ignore their self-serving desires. Thanks to this great legislator-educator, society would advance spiritually, cooperation would become the norm, and everyone would be fulfilled...
Medical researchers have been studying air controllers intensively since at least the 1960s, but findings are contradictory. In one sampling, the percentage of controllers with high blood pressure was only a third of the national average. In another, the percentage was more than double the norm. One researcher found frequent ulcers and other stomach disorders. Another found heartbeat irregularities among controllers at twice the rate for other men their age. Still other research found that resentment of management was the greatest source of controller dissatisfaction, while "stress" was, in fact, the negative aspect of work that the controllers cited least...
...designed the immortal Mouse, a whirlwind comic force, simple and unsentimental, that for high, mean spirits was never matched. It is true that in Iwerks' rubbery stick figures and bare backgrounds there was an elemental anarchy that is still delightful. But one has only to look at Norm Ferguson's roughs for Playful Pluto, in which he caused his pup to be caught in flypaper for an entire reel of helpless hilarity to see what three-dimensional plasticity could do to enhance the range and delicacy of animated humor. When the whole Disney gang got going on something...
...insensitivity to government employees whose health was irreparably damaged by exposure to nuclear wastes, among them the army units dispatched during the 1950's into radioactive zones in a bravura effort by the U.S. to demonstrate safety. "Cancer rates among the exposed men have been far above the statistical norm, yet the afflicted soldiers have found it impossible to obtain government compensation. The same situation is likely to hold true for the eventual victims of the Three Mile Island incident and other accidents...