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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traffic blessing, for bombed-out areas made excellent parking lots. But office blocks are going up on the bomb sites -bringing more cars into the center of town and simultaneously eliminating places for them to park. Creeping toward home from work in the rush hour, Londoners must often leave their cars a 20-minute walk from their front doors...
...first time, tribal Liberians got the vote and even won a few seats in the legislature, where they proved to be reliable members of Tubman's True Whig Party. Later, Tubman extended the suffrage to women, took tribal Liberians into his Cabinet. In the back country, often carried in a hammock, the traditional mode of travel for Liberian VIPs, he palavered endlessly with jungle chiefs. Eventually he set up a network of bush clinics, experimental farms, and artificial ponds stocked with fish to supplement the meager native diet of rice and cassava roots...
Wind v. Gas. Such frivolities are often viewed with mixed feelings by the half a million or so sailboaters in the U.S., who pride themselves on skillful ability to match wits with wind, tides and currents, without the crutch of a gasoline engine. To many of them, powerboatmen are simply "stinkpotters." who think there is nothing more to know about seamanship than how to push a starter button and steer. They in turn suffer the derisive snort of "rag-haulers." The schism runs deep. After all, say the rag-haulers, we were here first...
When decapitation and crucifixion were not effective, the shoguns invented tsurushi, in which the victim was suspended head downward in a pit, often partly filled with offal, to hang in agony sometimes a week or more before dying. "The persecuters were well aware that entire districts would be depopulated if all Christians were killed," says Drummond, "and so from the beginning they aimed to make apostates rather than martyrs." Many Japanese preferred to give up their Christianity. But a surprising number held out to the death. In Shimabara 36,000 men, women and children, offered the way to freedom...
Among the worst offenders, said Dr. Finland, is Pseudomonas aeruginosa, or the "blue-pus organism," which nowadays crops up more often and with greater virulence. Surprisingly, another problem microbe is Aerobacter aerogenes, found naturally on many food plants and in water and milk, as well as in man's digestive tract. Once rated almost harmless, it is now a killer. In sum, optimists who think it is old-fashioned nonsense to talk about fatal "blood poisoning" are wrong. There are now more deaths from septicemia than there were before the antibiotic age, said Dr. Finland...