Word: aranda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend of mine asked if I wanted to play cricket," says Steve Aranda, 19, a hard-core gang member at the time. "I got a dictionary to look up what it was." Aranda, who once watched a gunned-down friend die in his arms, says the punks tease him about this sissy cricket thing. "But this will take me places they'll never go." Former gang member Robert Saxton, 16, thinks of it as switching crews. "This is my gang now," says Saxton, shagging balls at practice...
...replica of his hometown--gravel roads, gas lamps--to recapture the "saner and sweeter idea of life" he had helped destroy.) And in a thousand little ways--from the telephone to the refrigerator to ready-made microwavable meals-technology has eroded the bonds of neighborly interdependence. Among the Aranda Aborigines of Australia, the anthropologist George Peter Murdock noted early this century, it was common for a woman to breast-feed her neighbor's child while the neighbor gathered food. Today in America it's no longer common for a neighbor to borrow a cup of sugar...