Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sent off on vacation. In both Edinburgh and London he prowled the seedier neighborhoods late at night, sometimes dressed as a gentleman, sometimes as a ruffian, noting the differences in how he was treated. He appears to have had at least one serious affair with a prostitute, probably broken off by parental pressure...
...alluded to last week, information that is sent over the Internet is shared. Not only within systems, but also across systems. In fact, when you send an e-mail from fas.harvard.edu to minerva.cis.yale.edu, your message is broken up into "packets" which bounce from system to system as they make their way from Cambridge to New Haven. Instead of traveling over a direct line, Internet packets are passed along by numerous machines between the source and the destination...
...city. I was determined to get to them even if I had to walk. I was able to take one of the few remaining trains halfway to my destination. There I met a young man who for the next five hours led me to Kobe, clearing the road of broken glass and steering me away from danger. He was constantly concerned about me, disregarding his own safety during our often perilous journey on foot. I was dazed and shocked by the destruction around me. My guide led me through the ravaged area right to the front door of where...
...much as a fresh coat of paint. Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam was too busy, running first the French out of the North and then the Americans out of the South. Neglect reduced many of the great ocher villas to crumbling ghost houses, often with electric wires dangling from broken windows...
...city. I was determined to get to them even if I had to walk. I was able to take one of the few remaining trains halfway to my destination. There I met a young man who for the next five hours led me to Kobe, clearing the road of broken glass, steering me away from danger and running ahead and searching for safer routes. He was constantly concerned about me, disregarding his own safety and comfort during our often perilous journey on foot. I was dazed and shocked by the destruction around me. My guide led me through the ravaged...