Word: smalleness
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...nice thing was that I live in a small town, so people got used to it. It was only if I saw a stranger would I have to go through the whole rigmarole of pointing to the sign and writing on the dry-erase board. Usually people would say, "Still no voice?" and I'd nod and they'd be like, "Sorry, man!" I kept to limited circles...
...cured - or even weakened - it could help quell many parents' outsize fear of them. "People disproportionately worry about getting extreme reactions or even dying after eating peanuts," says Clark. But while allergy experts agree that risks from food sensitivities are very real, the truth is that only a small fraction of patients develop life-threatening reactions...
...Hawaii, with some lines snaking down the street. People were queued outside a Costco two hours before it was set to open (the store ended up opening early to accommodate them). But despite the lines, there seemed to be more concern and caution than outright fear. "Everyone is small-kine panicking," said one resident, using a local term for "just a little bit." See a graphic depiction of the Indian Ocean tsunami...
Romero expanded this premise into parable of a government experiment gone horribly wrong in wartime. He posited that a plane containing a deadly virus crashed in a lake near a small town; the military then takes drastic actions to contain it. Made during the Vietnam war, and just after the revelations of a My Lai massacre, the original Crazies had an unmissable Vietnam analogy: the military must destroy this village to save the country. The local folks could almost be seen as Vietnamese civilians, politicized by attacks on their village and fighting back by any means necessary. There's also...
Nearly all captive zoo and park animals live far better today than they did in the horror-show era of full-grown beasts in small metal cages. But many animal psychologists argue that the landscaping and enriched environments of contemporary zoos are as much for the benefit of human visitors as anything else. The array of dysfunctional behaviors on display at even the best zoos - from swaying giraffes to pacing big cats to the compulsive back-and-forth swimming of Gus, the famously neurotic polar bear in New York's Central Park Zoo - illustrate the psychologists' point. Trying to improve...