The article focuses on the author's daily routine of picking up garbage along the Back Cove shoreline, reflecting on the satisfaction derived from simple acts and the awareness it brings to personal contributions to environmental issues, amidst a broader skepticism about systemic change.
Discusses papers presented in a symposium on blushing which took place at the June 1990 meeting of the American Psychological Society. Possible purpose served by blushing during the course of evolution; Social function of blushing; Distinction between blushing and anxiety; Similarity of blushing to the appeasement gestures that are prevalent in interactions among primates.
Reports on U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and his advice to the public that they should not be sealing up doors and windows. Concern that the public may have gone too far in responding to the government's recommendation that they purchase duct tape and plastic sheeting to seal up doors and windows in the event of biochemical attack; Reminder from Ridge that the supplies should be kept available but not used; U.S. President George W. Bush's efforts to quell public anxiety; Indication from the Bush administration that the heightened security period warning of possible terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda may have passed.
Published
2003
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