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NoME Part One: Chapter 1: Session 805, May 16, 1977 1/16 (6%) hunter species biological animals prey
– The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part One: The Events of “Nature.” Epidemics and Natural Disasters
– Chapter 1: The Natural Body and Its Defenses
– Session 805, May 16, 1977 9:28 P.M. Monday

(Jane’s ideas — and mine, too — have matured considerably since I wrote a month ago that she was thinking of converting half of our garage into a writing room, with its attendant back porch. In fact, we’ve agreed to go ahead with that project this summer. It will certainly be a long and noisy endeavor. Now that he’s finished the front porch, our contractor is free to begin work at the back of the house as soon as possible.)

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NoME Part One: Chapter 2: Session 805, May 16, 1977 1/50 (2%) cancer disease mastectomies breast women
– The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part One: The Events of “Nature.” Epidemics and Natural Disasters
– Chapter 2: “Mass Meditations.” “Health” Plans for Disease. Epidemics of Beliefs, and Effective Mental “Inoculations” Against Despair
– Session 805, May 16, 1977 9:28 P.M. Monday

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In the overall, then, violent shows provide a service, in that they usually promote the sense of a man’s or a woman’s individual power over a given set of circumstances. At best the public service announcements introduce the doctor as mediator: You are supposed to take your body to a doctor as you take your car to a garage, to have its parts serviced. Your body is seen as a vehicle out of control, that needs constant scrutiny.

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