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...major reason is that the park areas have been so carefully protected from fire that the pines have become aged and thus vulnerable. Now millions of them are turning bright red and then gray as they die. Says Yellowstone Biologist Doug Houston: "The longer you suppress fires, the more we set ourselves up for insect infestation and for unnatural catastrophic fires...
...Russian Republic's criminal code ("defaming the Soviet political and social system"), the same law under which Yakir is being held. Yakir protested Bukovsky's arrest and presumably will now defend himself by arguing that the authorities themselves are violating the Soviet constitution when they suppress dissent...
Most of all, complainers as individuals should not lose heart. They should learn to suppress that feeling of embarrassment, the worry about what other people will think of them. If the neighbors are playing their radio at a level that suggests that they are deaf, pound on the wall. Or ring their doorbell and expostulate in calm, well-reasoned tones. If a bargain gadget advertised for sale turns out to be not as advertised, arm yourself with the advertisement and demand redress. Faced with an outrageous bill for a crankcase repair, demand to see the "flatrate manual" used...
Owens has shown little willingness to compromise so far. Ackermann and the two other liberals--Francis H. Duehay '55 and Robert Moncreiff--are firm in their stand behind Peterson. So Corcoran continues in his position as City Manager, probably finding it difficult to suppress guffaws at the liberals' fratricide. And Graham and many citizens of Cambridge wonder what they did to deserve this mess...
Despite his denial, a terminal patient nearly always knows the truth. Discouraging him from talking about it puts him under great strain. Even when his knowledge is unconscious, it is generally so close to the surface that the struggle to suppress it only compounds his anguish. When the struggle ends, the patient is "fortified, not undermined," Weisman says. He cites the case of a patient close to death who asked a hospital social worker how to find a nurse to look after her "when she went home." Because the patient had earlier talked freely about her death and her fear...