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...have come all that far from the time when grunts and gesticulations were the main ways of getting messages across. Both individuals and groups still send vital messages by gesture, by pantomime, by dramatics-by a dizzy diversity of what scholars call nonverbal communication. The reality is easy to overlook in an epoch that is bloated with pride in its dazzling technical marvels of communication. Yet, in spite of human garrulousness, perhaps as little as 20% of the communication among people is verbal, according to experts; most, by far, even when talk is going on, consists of nonverbal signals...
...society that says drug taking is O.K.," suggests Rosenthal, "cocaine gives the user the illusion of being more in control. People feel stronger, smarter, faster, more able to cope with things. It's more than the pleasure principle." What these people tend to overlook, points out Charles Schuster, director of the Drug Abuse Research Center at the University of Chicago, is the tremendous psychological risk: "One of cocaine's biggest dangers is that it diverts people from normal pursuits; it can entrap and redirect people's activities into an almost exclusive preoccupation with the drug...
...then, compromise has often been the rule for Black people in this country. Realizing the necessity of reaching a middle ground in all legislative bodies, it is still difficult to overlook the historical example. The act should be extended because court action has proven ineffective in the past. And with the conservative trend in this country, no one will be able to convince minorities that it suddenly will change now. In fact, allowing the act to expire would probably be taken as a sign of government apathy towards minority interests...
Bands enjoy a "captive audience" and they "tend to overlook this and think that they have some First Amendment right to do pretty much as they please." Bok said...
Rotting oranges in California [April 6] represent a criminal nutritional waste. In addition, unimaginative profiteers overlook the potential of ethanol from the fruit for vehicle and home-heating fuel...