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- <text id=92TT1062>
- <title>
- May 11, 1992: World:Et Cetera
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 11, 1992 L.A.:"Can We All Get Along?"
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 13
- WORLD
- Et Cetera
- </hdr><body>
- <p> GLOOM IN THE TIME OF GLASNOST
- </p>
- <p> In Russia angst is one of the simple pleasures of life.
- But these days it is the one item in oversupply. According to
- a report by the Cherepovets Regional Scientific Methodological
- Center for the Study of Social Problems, 80% of the residents of
- the city, about 230 miles north of Moscow, are in a constant
- state of heightened irritability. The proportion experiencing
- alarm and depression is 70%; agitation and anxiety for no clear
- reason, 61%; a sense that life is meaningless, 42%. Thoughts of
- suicide have increased 20-fold. It might be called the "inside
- story" of reform.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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