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...another study, Frieden managed to delude some students into thinking they were masochists. Asked to choose between the tape and the shock, they picked the shock by a significant margin. Three-quarters of the shock group even agreed to eat a dead worm Frieden dangled in front of them. The reason, he thinks, is that they were anxious to learn if they were indeed masochists. In general, Frieden concludes, it is surprisingly easy to push normal people toward masochism. Says he: "When feeling bad about themselves, people actively choose to suffer." The good news is that none of the students...
They flock to the festival in four-wheel-drive pickups, station wagons and huge recreational vehicles for a couple of days of shopping for items that range from electrified fences and worm medicine to a $200 "rocking sheep" covered in natural fleece. Wolfing down golf-ball-size chunks of fresh lamb barbecue (at $3.50 a plate), they watch as skilled artisans turn piles of fleece into yarn with Rumpelstiltskin-like skill. After hours spent looking over the thickset Dorsets and Suffolks, fine-haired Merinos, goatish Barbado black bellies and exotic Karakuls on display, people whose only past experience with sheep...
...control there is more control. Her husband, a tall, slim fellow who puts a lot of emotion into his conversation and his gestures and who is forever touching Cheryl on the arm or smooching her behind the ear, says: "She really is what you see. There is no worm in this apple...
...billion years is a long time in evolution; 1 billion years ago, the highest form of life on the earth was a worm. The intelligent life in these other, older solar systems must be as different from us as we are from creatures wriggling in the ooze. Those superintendent beings surely will not be housed in the more or less human shapes portrayed in Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In a cosmos that has endured for billions of years against man's mere million, the human form is not likely to be the standard form...
Meanwhile, Cousin Hugh Carter, 57, says that his worm-farm business in Plains, Ga., is booming. Sales of the little wrigglers, used by the bucketful as fishing bait, went up 25% after Cousin Jimmy reached the White House, bringing in gross revenues...