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British writer Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize laureate in literature of 2007, has named Americans "naive or pretending naive" if they consider terrorist attack to New York on September, 11th, 2001 as unprecedentedly awful event. Lessing has told this in interview to the Spanish El Pais newspaper."Some Americans will think that I have gone mad. Many people have lost, two well-known buildings have failed, but it was neither so awful, nor so extraordinary, as they believe", - the writer who has celebrated on October, 22nd the 88 anniversary has told. She has compared losses from events on September, 11th (about three thousand killed and wounded persons) to number of victims of the acts of terrorism accomplished by the Irish republican army (about 2000 victims during thirty years).Lessing, known for her sharp political statements, has not failed to designate her antipathies: "Many of us hated Toni Blair. He has appeared to be misfortune for Great Britain, and we suffered because of him for years…Georges Bush is an accident for the whole world. Everybody is tired of him.He is either very silly, or very clever. Any way, it is necessary to remember, that he belongs to that social class which enriches on wars ".

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And still people cannot live without problems. It's boringly, probably. And,the better as a whole the country lives, the more propensities there is to find problems on an empty place … Here it is an example: the British policemen gain weight because they are compelled to eat in snackbars and have no possibility to visit gyms. How about this?According to the report of Institute of employment research, chiefs of many
police stations close gyms to avoid possible judicial claims in connection with traumas, which subordinates can receive during trainings. Many policemen interrogated by researchers, showed discontent with such state of affairs. As guards of the law and order marked, they cannot go to usual
gyms, because they risk to meet there people who once been detained. But dining rooms and bars in police stations for many of them were not only places where it is possible to eat, but also "a room of psychological stress relief" in its kind where the collective rallied.

Just like kids …

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