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Mormon ideals, however, do not promote warmth and intimacy between marital partners and offspring, despite "forced togetherness," nor do they encourage growth of the individual, open communication or independent thought. Since leaving the Mormon church, my own family is closer, more supportive, more optimistic, and happier as individual and independent human beings...
...small brown moths darkened the skies in Maine's mountain country in early July, cutting visibility at times to less than 300 yds. Motorists who left the windows of parked cars open near Presque Isle had to beat away the insects to get back behind the wheel. Since then, the moths have dropped eggs in massive quantities, and tiny quarter-inch-long spruce budworms are now eating their way through 150 million acres of forests in Maine and southeastern Canada. Evergreen spruce and fir trees stand brown and naked in the summer...
...coming apart. Trash is lying in the streets because sanitation workers stay off for a day, honoring police picket lines. Most of the firemen are also out on strike, and both they and the police are ignoring court orders to return to work. The schools are scheduled to open later in the week, but the teachers say they will not cross any picket lines. The mayor has called out the National Guard, costing the city $70,000 a day. Armed with M-16 rifles, bayonets fixed, soldiers are patrolling the city -or pitching horseshoes down at the armory to kill...
Those who know that English public schools are in fact private may go to the head of the class. You are clearly ready for a longer lesson in paradox. Open your copies of The Old School Tie and begin studying a system of education that has been bullying and beloved, tyrannical and anarchic, rigorous and howlingly inept. Memorize the ways in which a relatively insignificant number of masters and students created an ethos that spread, via the British Empire, worldwide. Questions will be asked later, and laggards can expect a caning...
Precisely at 7 o'clock on a muggy, mosquito-filled evening, we pushed off from a south Miami marina and sped east into the open Atlantic, heading for the deepest reaches of the Gulf Stream. Our skipper was Pete Peacock, 41, a contractor by trade but a fisherman by avocation, one of the best in the Miami area. If anyone could find the big broadbill, it was Peacock. Two other fishing boats tagged along in convoy as we tore out of the Cape Florida Channel at 30 m.p.h. The CB radio crackled with reports of battles near...