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...brings one's own experience to anything...That's what it's all about. One doesn't have to be told how to react, one reacts. And I don't have to force people to feel something...What gets in the way is a mind saying 'Oh, no, that's wrong' or 'that shouldn't be done.' Well, what if you got rid of all those and just said. 'This is what it is. Maybe if I look at it for a while it might grow interesting...
...Harrington, which seeks legislation favorable to industrial states. In newspaper ads proclaiming THE NORTH SHALL RISE AGAIN, Michigan has called for a Great Lakes area "common market." Busbee in turn has been telling colleagues, "We in the South will be eaten alive if we don't wake up and react...
...workers specialize in computer analysis of miles of taped transmissions. The U.S. can scarcely complain; some 4,000 Americans employed by the National Security Agency, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and secret private contractors are doing exactly the same thing. Both Soviet and American technicians use advanced computers programmed to react to trigger words; a Soviet analyst, for instance, might sit up straight on coming upon words like Cobra Dane, a new radar installation in the Aleutians, or Trident, the giant U.S. submarine now under construction...
Since the action occurs around 1941, the two audiences react in vastly different ways. The U.S. memory bank of World War II does not contain the traumatic wound dealt the Russians who suffered casualties in the millions at German hands. The valor, the burden and exhilaration of common sacrifice experienced in Russia during those years simply did not exist on the American home front. Thus the bruising flood of memory that Russians bring to Echelon can come from U.S. audiences only in spurts...
...even help airlines reroute their planes to avoid dangerous collisions with migrating birds. The bird count also acts as an environmental early-warning system. Recalling the canaries that miners took with them into coal mines to detect noxious fumes, Stahr explains that birds are usually quicker than man to react to changes about them. One example: the decline of many species-peregrine falcons, ospreys, brown pelicans-because of widespread use of insecticides...