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...crowd. I began to smoke alone to begin my days. In the evening I'd take Valium or halcyon or cercine or any of a number of sedatives to help me calm down. When I stopped smoking for a few days just to see if I could, a profound depression would overcome me. Nothing seemed worthwhile. Nothing seemed fun. Every book was torturously slow. Every song was criminally banal. The sparkle and shine had been sucked out of life so completely that my world became a fluorescent-lighted, decolorized, saltpetered version of the planet I had known before...
...substantial amount every year since 1990. In other words, a 7 percent cut on 1990 levels may require a cut of 20 to 30 percent on current output levels - cuts that can be achieved only by reducing consumption of gasoline, coal and other fossil fuels. In other words, a profound and expensive shift in everything from America's energy sources to its lifestyle...
...Holding court is the ebullient Gary Busey, who spouts philosophy on a more profound level than I can understand. I've met him at a few social gatherings, but I was unprepared for his greeting. "Let's get together sometime and talk about art and life; then we can dance like baboons." The meaning of this eluded me, and I queried him gently. "Dance like buffoons," he told me correcting my hearing. This made even less sense to me, but Busey is such a charismatic figure that one assumes that one's total lack of comprehension is because...
...justice is the most profound responsibility of public life, it is also the one we are least suited to fulfill. It's no mystery why this should be. We're human. Our byways are complicated. The institutions of law are infected with the same shortcomings - greed, dishonesty, weakness, indifference, anger - that give rise to injustice in the first place. On the everyday working level, criminal justice is like chemotherapy. We throw our little poisons at big ones...
Even the most sophisticated hearing aids cannot restore perfect hearing. In particularly difficult conditions, many people find assistive listening and alerting devices helpful. In her determination not to be sidelined by her profound hearing loss, New Yorker Ruth Bernstein, 67, has become a gadget guru. The lamps in her living room, office and bedroom are wired to flash when the phone rings or the doorbell buzzes. Her telephone has a receiver with a powerful amplifier. Though theaters are required to lend listening systems to hard-of-hearing customers, Bernstein has purchased her own infrared unit. She's also bought...