Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Firman has received more personal benefits from chat rooms: last summer he found love. He and Rebecca Gose, 48, met in the Third Age Cafe and started e-mailing each other. Then in September Firman drove the RV to Colorado Springs to meet her. He has been there ever since; his RV is parked where he can see Pikes Peak out the front window when he wakes up. Firman enjoys that view every morning when he makes himself coffee and checks his e-mail on the computer set up on his dashboard. Sometimes there are messages from...
Recently he saw the strength of Internet friendship. A member of a Third Age chat group who calls himself "Skyhook" had a severe reaction to medication while he was online. Skyhook, a quadriplegic, was home alone in Ohio. The online group kept him alert while someone called 911. A few months later, Firman and some other members of the chat group paid a visit to Skyhook. After they saw his mobile home, they contacted Ohio social services, which helped make the dwelling more wheelchair accessible and updated his computer...
...roadkill candidate: a bland career politician squashed by two glamorous multimillionaire opponents--airline tycoon Al Checchi and Representative Jane Harman. Davis, the state's solid but uninspiring lieutenant governor, was ignored by pundits and written off by insiders who are convinced that California has entered the age of the "virtual campaign," in which elections are won and lost solely in the ectoplasm of television ads. According to this theory, Californians don't follow politics, and the local news media barely cover it--so hiring hot consultants and buying maximum TV time is all that counts. It seemed the primary would...
What got Dahmer killed, though, was helping blacks register to vote at a time when that was perilous work. In 1960 fewer than 100 of Forrest County's 8,000 voting-age blacks were registered. Dahmer would drive neighbors to the courthouse and watch in frustration as the white registrar found reasons to turn them away. Eventually, Dahmer got the sheriff to sign out to him a poll-tax receipt book, and Dahmer announced over the radio that blacks could register at his grocery. "I said, 'I wouldn't do this if I were you,'" recalls J.C. Fairley, a friend...
President of the United States. This job is often avoided by students because it necessitates living in Washington and has an age requirement. But the position is very worthwhile. Recent grads would make excellent U.S. Presidents because they usually are single, and can get into less trouble than a married President. The "work" does not require that one have been President of some other place, like China. And it lasts eight years at most, after which you'll have plenty of time for golf and dating. Perks include free food, your own seal, protection by the Secret Service (when they...