Word: coexistences
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...there is a message amid the decaying grandeur of Venice, it is the transience of power and glory. The romance surrounding the accession of Bill Clinton is destined to be ephemeral -- politics and poetry, by their very nature, cannot coexist for long. But for a moment, an American tourist amid the stones of Venice can bask in the awareness that his troubled nation has embraced the future and that the Old World is witnessing this leap of political faith with covetous eyes...
...most important thing for man's survival is technology. And the most important issue facing mankind is related to the decline of the educated population. To allow humankind to coexist happily, we have to provide more opportunities for education. Currently television is misused, utilized mostly for entertainment. But I think TV entertainment can be a means for education, as Sesame Street has been. There should be a global project to launch a satellite for this purpose. And perhaps we could operate TVs with solar energy...
...point beyond which a virtue turns mean and nasty. Constantly hearing the truth, the cold, hard, brutal unsparing truth, from spouses, relatives, friends and colleagues is not a pleasant prospect. "Human kind," as T.S. Eliot wrote, "cannot bear very much reality." Truth telling makes it possible for people to coexist; a little lying makes such society tolerable...
...population has held steady at about 18%, but Montgomery County remains so segregated that activists hold annual rallies at the "peace bridge" that spans the Great Miami River, which runs like a racial moat between very black West Dayton and very white East Dayton. Where blacks and whites do coexist, it's often a case of what Dayton Mayor Richard Dixon calls "temporary integration" -- meaning that whites simply haven't had time to pack their bags...
...that carry Lyme disease. From a turn-of-the-century low of 500,000, white-tailed deer in the continental U.S. have rebounded to a population of 25 million -- about as many as there were before hunting, land-clearing Europeans colonized America -- and that is just too many to coexist comfortably with modern society. Still, simply killing off the excess raises questions of safety and ethics, especially in the suburbs...