Word: connectedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most staff psychiatrists at the dispensary spend two hours after work each night making house calls. Particularly in the cities, the dispensaries double as social centers to give lonely and deprived people somewhere to go. Dr. Fira Passer, a short, energetic, middle-aged woman who runs the center, says that...
Other abuses of power range from bribetaking in order to help people get exit visas for Hong Kong to falsifying university exam scores. One of the most common abuses among officials is influence peddling to obtain favors for their children. As a modern-day Chinese proverb has it: "The 10...
His biggest mistake seems to have been a friendship with a certain Thomas ("Red") Bryant, a Hell's Angel connected with the San Rafael auto body shop that according to the prosecution was a center of drug dealing, mayhem and murder. Bryant appears to be just the type the...
Miami's blacks, who make up about 15% of the city, have long shared the grievances of other urban blacks, but they have won little redress-or even attention -because of the increasing Latinization of greater Miami (the Latin immigrants now represent 37.5%). And though the new violence was...
The Mediterranean is a closed sea, its only significant outlet being the Straits of Gibraltar. Nearly 90% of the sewage that pours into its waters is untreated. The Naples sewer system is so antiquated that authorities cannot even locate the pipes. In Athens, 60% of the city is not connected...