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...major problem facing the new populists is the same as that of their predecessors 80 years ago; race hatred. Populism in the early 1890's was free of rectal overtones, but by 1897 much of its platform was based on provincialism, nativism and racism...
...sing of rectal carcinoma...
...Sand & Rectal Thermometers. The victories really belonged to Bonnet. And it was all the more remarkable because the twelfth child of an Alpine hotelkeeper was so late in showing an interest in the sport. He grew up determined to become a doctor; he never set foot on skis until World War II, when he divided his time between the air force and the maquisards-mountain-based Resistance fighters. While in uniform, he learned to ski so well that at war's end he was asked to take over training the army's Alpine ski troops. There he stayed...
...their shoulders, forced them to climb endless flights of stairs, descend innumerable mountains to strengthen thigh muscles. On the slopes, he was the original martinet: barking orders to assistants through a walkie-talkie, charting every speed-slowing bump or hollow, taking the temperature of the snow with a rectal thermometer to be certain that precisely the right amount of wax was on the skis...
Seductive writing sometimes seems to sell projects whose utility is not easily apparent. The Government gave one school $50,000 to film the mating dance of the Amazon butterfly, while other researchers received a grant to study the rectal temperature of hibernating bears. A team of engineers at the University of Minnesota got $250,000 from the Government to devise an ideal "experimental city." The only trouble with this otherwise worthy project: no full-time social scientist was involved in the study...