Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...along 1-75, the highway that runs north from Florida, suburbs branch off, filled with people who, for the most part, found what they came for but expected more for their kids. Near the town of Taylor, Mich., in a house with a Roosevelt commemorative plate on a rail above the table, someone on television is announcing the worst year for car sales since 1961. Lee lacocca, the chairman of Chrysler, insists he is excited about next year. No one listens. The people in the house are talking about neighbors who went to Houston or Tulsa looking for work...
...soft summer nights young Russell would listen quietly as they gathered on his grandmother's porch to swat flies and swap news. Someone had lost his arm in a thresher accident, some one else had a sick cow, the crops were burning up for lack of rain. A branch of the family in the funeral business was stuck with a monstrously expensive glass coffin. Fortuitously, the area's biggest illegal distiller expired. His widow, impressed with the glass box and its air-tight rubber seal, bought the thing on sight...
...sometimes as a prostitute for the narcotics and vice divisions of the Buena Park, Calif., police department. She says her investigators are less expensive than her competitors' because she hires inexperienced young people and trains them herself. Business has been so good that Short is opening a new branch in San Bernardino, Calif., and even has visions of franchising her discount detective agency...
...Stanford coding system was cracked by Adi Shamir, 30, an Israeli expert in the branch of mathematics known as complexity theory. Shamir was at M.I.T. in the late '70s as an associate professor of mathematics, and in fact helped write the M.I.T. code that competes head-on with Stanford's. Last spring, back in his spartan, second-floor office in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the lean, blue-jeaned mathematician settled the old wager: he found a way to unravel the original Stanford system. The code Shamir broke after four years of hard work...
About 15 students are organizing a Harvard branch of Amnesty International, an organization dedicated to protecting human rights throughout the world...