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Born to a well-to-do family, Mengele received degrees in medicine and anthropology before arriving in 1943 to work as an SS doctor at Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi death camps. As cattle cars of Jewish captives arrived, he committed the "unfit" to the gas chambers and chose others for his experiments. He injected serum into children's eyes in an effort to change their color and killed victims with drugs in order to perform autopsies on them. His special interest, however, was in twins and dwarfs. When Mengele found seven dwarfs among her Hungarian theater family, Elizabeth...
Never have well-to-do customers been so pampered by their banks. The reason is purely profit. Financial institutions make almost all of their money on the richest 20% of their depositors because these depositors engage in the highest-value transactions. Therefore, bankers have added a number of customized services and tastefully appointed offices with the hope of attracting more of these high rollers...
Improbabilities are losing their news value in Kansas City, where the baseball team so well-to-do for a decade, and so depressed last season, was advertised to be "in transition," and emphatically is. As Brett said, "When you hear transition, you think of rebuilding; when you think of rebuilding, you think of finishing sixth. The Cubs have been rebuilding for 39 years." On July 18, the Royals in fact were in sixth place (40-51), but to the easy encouragement of Manager Dick Howser they won 43 of the next 67 with a crowd of boy pitchers...
While Coles does perceive a tangible fear of the bomb among some of the more well-to-do children he meets, he is generally skeptical about the level of research on the subject. He told his audience in Los Alamos, "Reporters, and some American social scientists for that matter, do quickle interviews with children the morning after they have seen docu-dramas on nuclear war. They are told, 'We're frightened,' and they believe it." Coles added, "You always have to ask, Which people are frightened? All children? Some children? If so, where do they live? In what context does...
...camping nearby. And they refused to be tempted to air-conditioned houses by the middle-class Yuppies who left the Tent City after experiencing a little discomfort. Calling themselves "Peacekeepers" because they held seminars on how to remain nonviolent and protect their bodies when attacked by the police, these well-to-do allies field suit to have the City immediately provide another campsite with shade trees and air conditioned first aid vehicles. Dallas' responsibility to protect First Amendment rights only extends so far, the judge ruled...