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...placed in carp-filled ponds, the hunted fish begin to bulk up on food in the water until, after 12 weeks, they are simply too big for the pike to swallow. But the bigger carp expend more energy swimming. Once the pike threat is gone, the carp should revert back to their slimmer shape. Call them the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the deep -- at least for a while...
...effort to maintain a level of poetry in their lyrics, 10,000 Maniacs sometimes revert to weak, airy lines. In the title track, "Eden," the band gets a bit too caught up in the garden's imagery: "Willing to grow but rains are shallow/ Barren and wind-scattered seed on stone and dry land/ We will be/ Waiting for the light arisen to flood inside the prison...
...effort to maintain a level of poetry in their lyrics, 10,000 Maniacs sometimes revert to weak, airy lines. In the title track, "Eden," the band gets a bit too caught up in the garden's imagery: "Willing to grow but rains are shallow/ Barren and wind-scattered seed on stone and dry land/ We will be/ Waiting for the light arisen to flood inside the prison...
...fact, is the fate of political and economic reform throughout the former Soviet bloc. At best, its countries probably will not and cannot become carbon copies of Western capitalist democracies. At worst, they are unlikely to revert to old-fashioned Marxism-Leninism in any form that would threaten a new cold war. But whether the hybrid political economies that do evolve represent a net gain for political and economic freedom or a descent into a kind of authoritarian chaos remains an unsettled question...
Still, surely it is preferable to have television dramas and sitcoms addressing important dilemmas now and then -- single motherhood, for example, or drug addiction or wife battering. Better that than to revert entirely to Gomer Pyle and Gilligan's Island and My Little Margie...