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...deep sleep, of loneliness conducive to abstract, sad musing without any clearly defined thought." Russians seem so overwhelmed by the sheer enormousness of their country that they would rather settle down by a warm stove, break out a bottle of vodka and muse about life than go out and plow a furrow toward the endlessly receding horizon. A leading Moscow architect maintains that this sense of the horizontal is so strong in Russian minds that it is hard to find a straight vertical line anywhere...
Talking To Animals often play at Boston clubs The Paradise, Nightstage. The Channel, Avalon, T.T the Bears and The Plow. At a recent gig at the Middle East Cafe, they energized the room, transforming hesitant dancing into uninhibited partying...
Demographers refer to such collisions between rising demand and diminishing resources as "train wrecks." As the world adds new billions of people in ever shorter periods, such potential conflicts happen almost everywhere. With most of the world's good land already under plow, a population of 11 billion human beings would probably have to make do with less than half the arable land per capita that exists today. That would set the stage for disaster, as farmers stripped nutrients from the soil, exacerbated erosion and gobbled up water and wild lands...
...Eric, bisexuality "enhances the human experience. You get a fuller, richer sexual life. Other men plow through life without understanding the parts of themselves that are feminine." Bisexuals often claim to be more sensitive and empathic lovers. "There is some truth in that," says psychologist William Wedin, director of New York City's Bisexual Information and Counseling Service. "Part of being bisexual means that you see things from more than one perspective. You can't be comfortable in stereotypical ways of thinking and reacting...
...knows," a young Harry Truman wrote to his future wife Bess, "maybe I'll be like Cincinnatus and be elected constable someday." The ideal of the noble citizen reluctantly laying down his plow to spend a few years cleaning up his government is deeply appealing to most Americans, especially now during this open season on professional politicians. Such sentiments account for the burst of enthusiasm greeting Ross Perot and for the best-sellerdom that inevitably awaits David McCullough's loving and richly detailed megabiography of Truman...