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There was a graduate student from Korea in our department, a Mr. Kim. He had found it difficult to adjust to the mechanized life in America, and the sight of an American squirrel automatically fanning itself was too much. He would come into my laboratory day after day and stand beside the squirrel cage, laughing quietly as he watched a squirrel running head-on into its self-generated breeze. Not long afterward Mr. Kim quietly returned to Korea without his degree. (p. 655)