European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes thursday november 14, 1985 7olumi today s crossword watching nil on Abc in my bids by Russell Baker our House current is a. Not do. But with the a we can gel both am and pm on the radio. The radio also works without the a if you put in d batteries. The to is different. First you plug the to into the a and it gives you the Viii. Somol pcs you Jet the Usif. Too. The vhf brings of Abc. Lbs and Abc. But unless you live in u big City you probably can t gel pcs without uhf. With the vhf bringing you Abc lbs and Abc. You learn u kit about pfc pm ism and try.  course of can find out what happening with the user the Al , the in. The Law. The Oas a to. Nasa and the Oakland a thai s nil right bul for a Little More variety you need c at which of can also supplement with a Var. With a Var you can enjoy the Best from a without interruption. What s More you can have your Choice of a pc pg-13. Rory. The Var comes in two alphabets Ems which is English or Beta which is greek As in Phi Beta Kappa. The Var at our House is vhf. I installed it myself by detaching the cat wire from the to and attach ing in to the Var at he vhf receptacle then running a Var wire from the other vhf receptacle to the to. In sounds easier thin it is. Bul never mind because everything came out of. At soon at i plugged the whole tangle of wires into the old a we were Able to ice an uninterrupted movie about space people who  the movie was just Bok. It included newsreel film of Juk but had an actor playing lbs As a Clown with a whine. Another actor played Ike who was never known As de though he initiated his papers  neither list nor for appeared in old newsreel film or Courtesy of professional actors. Alphabet aficionados incidentally arc not called a. A Normal percentage joins a. Of course just As a Normal percentage joins the a a. I am not an alphabet aficionado but it s hard for anybody to understand any thing that s said anymore without first mastering Alpha Betic English. If you doubt it. Try to imagine Thomas Jefferson sitting around in his by Fps minding his is and is while Reading a communication from the vow about scandal Ous doings in the a. Imagine George Washington being told that by add ing cat to his to he will be Able to escape All those bad of commercials and also to pick up a Tot More of the nil. Aba and Mil. Than he can get on his Stan Dard vhf Hookup. People of Washington s time had no need to use alphabetic code. That s Why no american knows whom you arc talking about when you Call John Quincy Adams to while a fictional cad on contemporary to can become so Well known that half the Western world will be intrigued by the question who Shoter m the trend that in reducing English to an alphabetic Breeze seems fairly modern. Maybe the spread of alphabet English is a desperate makeshift attempt to keep communication open when the increasingly incomprehensible nature of formal English threatens to shut in Down. The other possibility is that there is a mischievous impulse afoot among the  head who create most of this alphabet talk to resist the calcification of the language by keeping it is Breezy As a tabloid headline. Whatever the explanation the old Mother Tongue is anything but a of and getting murkier every Day. Yet with the right maps and a Little Luck you can still use it to get a Var humming without elect routing yourself. Tel new York Tamsi of americans pick a risk any risk by Ellen Goodman Boston the images arc All around us. Some of them arc bewildering others be musing. Bul they arc scenes from the risky business of everyday living. In California a family cuts Back on sugar in the decaffeinated Coffee they drink in their House on the san Andreas fault. In Pennsylvania a Man goes jog Ging against the backdrop of the three mile Island nuclear reactor. In Maine a woman rides to aerobics class on her Motorbike without a helmet. A Friend of yours mine ours decides that after so Many air crashes he will Fly Only in emergencies. He explains this earnestly while Chain smoking cigarettes. Another Friend drinks Only bottled water these Days cats Only meals untouched by steroids and spends weekends hang gliding. In some Peculiar Way each of us assesses risks with a different calculator. We All live now As if we were work ing for some vast National life insurance company. Day by Day Issue by Issue bulletin by bulletin we rewrite our own preferred risk policy. The most recent and most emotional scenes of Public risk assessing happen now on the front lines of the aids Story. Watching parents demonstrating against one school and then another for allowing an aids Vic Tim into their child s building i could t help wondering How Many packed up their picket signs in the Back seat their children in front and drove away without buckling the scat belts. How do any of us make assessments what part is reason what part is fear what part do statistics play what part emotions there tie two culture at work in risk assessment and More Insi Bililis. As an article in science 85 mag Azine Points out there Are times when the Public pays scant attention to major " so and times when even a Small risk is too " to a opted. Our attitudes arc much Morocco Mph.  t in the numbers. Last year for example 45,000 americans died in car accidents half of whom would be alive if they d worn seat belts. On the other hand not a single medical person caring for aids patients has come Down with the disease. Yet the fear of holding the hand of a person with aids May far outweigh the fear of driving. As the science 85 writer explains we May be much More willing to accept higher risk in activities Over which we have control such As smoking drinking driving or skiing than things Over which we have Little control such As Industrial pollution food additives and commercial  or surely aids. In dealing with Public attitudes we can t discount dread from the risk equation. Certainly not in talking of aids. The Odds of an aids cataclysm on the scale of medieval plagues May be Small but we always weigh heavily the smallest Chance of any massive disaster. It is dread that tips the Scales of statistical logic. None of 111 knows yet where the argument about the dangers of aids will Lead. There is a part of us thai remains open to information. We do quit smoking or try to we do pass mandatory seat Belt Laws. In the latest Harris Survey less than one third of us still believe that aids can be caught by casual Contact. Our anxiety May indeed follow statistics the path of the disease up or Down. But i have the sense that there will he chilling arguments ahead of us. This is after All. A a country thai Qirici to ban saccharin while building nuclear bombs. We argue and will go on arguing about risk in two different languages numbers and  and anxieties. To won com hmm Nevoit pm i aetonch/ucra-1  too cams ten so i  the tax Juhas  \h6fckmtysr 4 p by Eugene Sheffer across 1 the two5 mexican snack9 greek letter 12 Taj Mahalite 13 Melville Captain 14 top15 fellow student17 every thing18 did t ing 19 panache 21. 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