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...Biologist Yukitaka Kanayama of Tokyo's Hosei University, the shimmering beauty of live rainbow trout is something to stir the scientific imagination. It pained Kanayama to think that most of the rainbow infants raised in Japan's hatcheries are no sooner released in a river than they are gobbled up by bigger fish, including their own elders. He decided to send rainbow babies to survival school...
...doctors' dissent was described by one observer as "a shot fired when the battle is over." Yet it did stir some reluctant rethinking. Stockholm's prestigious daily, Expressen, which bitterly attacked the petition, concluded that "the uneasiness about these problems must not be dismissed as a bagatelle. It is now time for emotional disarmament and calm self-analysis...
...Moreover, said Che, "we are undergoing serious tension in a number of factories because equipment is rapidly going to pieces." The only sources for parts are "cannibal" shops, which strip spares from worn-out equipment and graft them onto salvageable machines. In some cases not even cannibalism will stir the equipment back to life. Guevara complained angrily about the "absence of labor discipline." But he also admitted that there was not much to work for these days. "The people want more things," he said. "They are constantly asking for food, shoes, clothing-all the consumer goods necessary for life...
...incredible, indubitable, indisputable mystery, life's history, in renaissance. Twig-twirling, bud-curling flora recommence their reproductive cycles. Birds are winging, children singing, men malingering. Chlorophyll fills the hill. Gauzy moths froth their troths. Saps stir...
Then he would rise from the piano to perform his Monkish dance. It is always the same. His feet stir in a soft shuffle, spinning him slowly in small circles. His head rolls back until hat brim meets collar, while with both hands he twists his goatee into a sharp black scabbard. His eyes are hooded with an abstract sleepiness, his lips are pursed in a meditative O. His cultists may crowd the room, but when he moves among them, no one risks speaking: he is absorbed in a fragile trance, and his three sidemen play on while he dances...