Word: chicago
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...Boston. In 1976 White won a Nieman Fellowship and went to Harvard to study ethnic politics and sociology in preparation for a stint as head of the Nairobi bureau from 1980 to 1982. On his return to the U.S., he covered the 1984 presidential campaign then went to Chicago as bureau chief the following year...
Hungry for customers, a growing number of gangs are going national, with black gangs like Los Angeles' Crips and Chicago's Disciples establishing franchises in cities from Seattle to Shreveport, La. "They're all over," says Detective Robert Jackson of the Los Angeles police department gang detail. "We've got a glut of coke here in Los Angeles, and the price is down. They can make three times as much money in Phoenix or Denver." Phoenix has suffered seven gang-related murders this year. In Denver the first Crips were detected in 1984; last March police there busted a crack...
...that the instant gratification of one-liners is perfectly suited to the short attention span of the TV-educated '80s audience. "If you go to a comedy play, a certain amount of time is lost setting up the plot or characters," notes Bert Haas, general manager of Zanies, a Chicago-based comedy-club chain. "In the stand- up comedy room, you get three or four laughs in one minute. It's like a shot of adrenaline...
Theories abound, but answers remain elusive. Perhaps the most promising approach grows out of the work of Black Sociologist William Julius Wilson of the University of Chicago, who popularized the concept of the underclass in his 1978 book The Declining Significance of Race. Wilson and his philosophical allies reject the simplistic single-factor theories of cause and effect, which range from the permissiveness of welfare to the pervasiveness of racism. Instead, they stress the ever widening social and economic gap between ghetto residents and the rest of American society, both white and black...
...death toll from the crash made it the nation's second worst. The crash of an American Airlines DC-10 on May 25, 1979, at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport is the nation's worst air disaster. It killed 275 people...