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...Good, naturally with variations according to what issue we are dealing with. On the East-West balance, our approaches, without being identical, are sufficiently close that we do not have serious problems. Very real, on the other hand, is the divergence with regard to people under the thumb of Latin American oligarchies. But by and large, Franco-American policy is based on dialogue. We discuss and seek agreement. And we are, both of us, faithful to the Alliance that unites us in defense of peace and that expresses a common civilization...
...published his first collection of the monthly essays he still writes for Natural History Magazine. Entitled Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History, the book established Gould as a writer of considerable appeal outside of the scientific community. He published another essay collection in 1980, The Panda's Thumb, which won the American Book Award and broadened his audience even further. Gould is now, according to an executive at his publishing house, W.W. Norton, one of the company's "most valuable" authors...
...people might testify, individual signals have a way of misfiring just as easily, with results just as calamitous if not as earthshaking. The danger of misunderstanding increases dramatically when even the most elementary signals are used by people in different cultures. The happiest of overt American signals, the circled thumb and index finger, unless accompanied by a smile, amounts to an insult in France. The innocent American habit of propping a foot on a table or crossing a leg in figure-four style could cause hard feelings among Arabs, to whom the showing of a shoe sole is offensive...
...year." Among other hazards, Hofstadter lists Cubitis magikia, "a severe mental disorder accompanied by itching of the fingertips that can be relieved only by prolonged contact" with the cube. Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, a former mayor of Manchester, England, had to be operated on for tendinitis of the thumb after a protracted cube-twisting session. A woman in West Germany who gave her husband the cube for Christmas is seeking a divorce because of it. Her complaint: "My husband hardly speaks to me. He even shuts himself up when we have visitors. And when he comes...
...stain a real tie with discount spaghetti sauce. Next, I had to get trained. The manager assigned me to John, high-school dropout and expert on stock-boying. John, however, was reluctant to share his expertise, and I was forced to teach myself tricks such as keeping my thumb out of the way of the razor blade carton opener and making sure that all the cans of toilet bowl disinfectant had their labels facing the customers...