The doctor prescribes white-knuckle terror
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Dr David Lewis, a 48-year-old psychologist, is an expert on fear commissioned by Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire to survey 2,000 of its visitors. Ninety per cent of children aged 10-12 liked frightening roller-coaster rides but over half their on mothers refused to go on those rides. Dr Lewis believes society's attempts to guarantee safety make frightening rides popular because few people experience thrills, terror or adventure at first-hand in modern life. Theme parks disturb the senses without serious risk and raise adrenalin. Public sophistication requires ever more exciting rides and virtual reality arcades for three-dimensional experience will be the thrill of the future.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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Malcolm X in the black country
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Malcolm X, the US Black Power spokesman visited Smethwick, England after he had been refused entry into France, and announced that the black people there were being treated like Hitler treated the Jews. Just nine days afterwards on February 21, 1965 he was assassinated in New York. Feeling against immigrants was bad in various parts of London, Birmingham, Manchester and other cities but the problem in Smethwick had been aggravated in the 1964 general election where posters were used bearing extremely offensive messages. This resulted in Labour losing the seat to the Conservatives with a swing more than double the national average.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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A forest risen from the ashes
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The National Forest, begun in 1991, now covers 200 sq miles of Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire, England. The core of this development was once the centre of the Leicestershire coalfield. The trees are now reviving the land damaged by coal mining.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2001
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