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In the same radio interview--the first the German public had ever heard from him--Naumann also outlined the startlingly ambitious program he'd undertake if Schroeder were elected: federalizing the arts budget in a country in which the arts are mainly supported by the states; revitalizing the German film industry by calling on his Hollywood pals to import more German films, and so on.
Prusiner's hypothesis is that fatal brain maladies such as mad-cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are caused not by viruses, bacteria, fungi, or some other mundane agent but by something startlingly new that he has discovered--mutant, rampaging proteins known as "prions," short for "proteinaceous infectious particles."
After all, even if you use an unadjusted CPI, the standard of living of the median family (50 th percentile) in 1950 America appears startlingly low by current standards.
La Boqueria is also a startlingly vibrant community, where shoppers and merchants greet each other by name, ribald sallies across the aisles set off gales of laughter, and the freshness of the rape (an angler fish popular in Catalonia) is debated with the passion of a traffic mishap.
Parents are working ever longer hours, and are startlingly frank about why: Staying home with the kids is "tedious work," especially when you could be out earning money in a self-esteem-enhancing workplace.