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Indomitable travelers will find positive virtues, however. Tipping, for instance, is strictly forbidden. Shopping may on occasion be rewarding: a few authentic antiques can be turned up and some handicraft items are excellent. Personal honesty is impressively high: travelers find it almost impossible to throw even an exhausted toothbrush away without having a dutiful chambermaid pursue them to return it. Some personal relations, in fact, offer genuine pleasures. "Courtesy and politeness," says Roderick, "will get you treated well almost everywhere in China today...
...with the new is part of the daily American experience. For better or for worse, the rest of the world learns what is in store for it by observing what happens in the United States: whether it be the latest scientific discoveries in space and medicine or the electric toothbrush in the bathroom; pop art or LSD; air conditioning or air pollution; old-age problems or juvenile delinquency...
Dangerous Toothbrush. Much of the time, CR's evaluations are the kind that manufacturers would prefer not to read anywhere. Automobiles often take a buffeting. CR's August issue reports several safety deficiencies in four pickup trucks tested for use with camper boxes and suggests that it would be better to pack a tent in the trunk...
Some manufacturers make the most of a bad rating in CR by correcting reported faults. Some sue (none ever successfully) or try to counter CR in other ways. When CR judged an electric toothbrush dangerous if dropped in water, its irate manufacturer challenged CR to let him brush his teeth while standing in a tub. CR refused the gambit, and the toothbrush was improved...
...front of my eyes dangled the body of my cat, Ming Ming, hanged from the roof by a washing line." When the crowd began chanting "Hang Grey," he was roughly ushered back inside the house to find posters stuck up everywhere, and all his belongings-even his sheets and toothbrush-smeared with black paint...