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Getting beer on Friday and Saturday nights became a ritual for us in high school. We called it "making a run," but the run was seldom easy...
...like. If the clerk asked for ID, we'd say defiantly, "Well, if you're not going to sell us beer, we're not going to buy any of this other stuff either! As a matter of fact we're never going to shop here again." It seldom worked...
...harangue against almost every aspect of the Polish government's economic policy. Social benefits, he asserted, were "much lower and much worse" than in other Communist-bloc countries. The national economy was collapsing due to "incompetence, lack of knowledge, the pursuit of private interests and bureaucratic swank and arrogance." Seldom since the heyday of Solidarity, the independent trade-union movement, had such harsh blasts been sounded at a Polish labor conference. But the times they are a'changing: the impassioned orator was chairman of the government-sponsored All-Poland Trade Unions Alliance, and seated behind him was Communist Party Chief...
...that flu marches on, while other viral scourges such as polio and measles have been largely conquered in the developed world? The vanquished viruses, it seems, were relatively stable, seldom changing their structure. This enabled their victims, once infected, to develop permanent immunity and allowed scientists to develop vaccines that were effective year after year. The influenza virus, however, is constantly changing the configuration of its surface proteins. Because of these changes, immune-system antibodies, developed in response to either a vaccination or a previous case of flu, fail to recognize and attack the altered virus. As a result...
There is, however, another side of Emo, a more pragmatic and genuinely thoughtful one, though it is seldom seen. He speaks seriously of the moral responsibility of a performer to the audience and observes, "You have to be very, very careful...every single word is very powerful when you're in the public...