Word: contacts
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...terms offensive to African Americans, Hispanics, women and Jews. In a portion of the transcripts obtained by TIME, for instance, he tells Martha Lorrie Diaz, a friend of McKinny's, that women cops are ineffectual "because they don't do anything. They don't go out and initiate a contact with some 6-ft. 5-in. nigger that's been in prison for seven years pumping weights." And in a twist almost unbelievable even in Simpsonland, he discusses-using derogatory language-run-ins with Ito's wife, police captain Margaret York, which suddenly raised the issue of whether Ito should...
...gatherer societies that anthropologists have studied this century, such as the Ainu of Japan, the !Kung San of southern Africa and the Ache of South America. Also valuable are societies with primitive agriculture in the few cases where--as with some Yanomamo villages in Venezuela--they lack the contaminating contact with moderners that reduces the anthropological value of some hunter-gatherer societies...
...depression is social isolation. Today one-fourth of American households consist of a single person. That's up from 8% in 1940--and, apparently, from roughly zero percent in the ancestral environment. Hunter-gatherer societies, for all their diversity, typically feature intimacy and stability: people live in close contact with roughly the same array of several dozen friends and relatives for decades. They may move to another village, but usually either to join a new family network (as upon marriage) or to return to an old one (as upon separation). The evolutionary psychologists John Tooby and Leda Cosmides...
...brownstone day after day without bumping into neighbors. It was suburbanization that brought the combination of transience and residential isolation that leaves many people feeling a bit alone in their own neighborhoods. (These days, thanks to electric garage-door openers, you can drive straight into your house, never risking contact with a neighbor...
...early reports are not encouraging. "The whole deck was reshuffled," said one German diplomat after the meeting in Bonn, "and Lake and Tarnoff came here not showing a great deal of imagination." A French diplomat called the U.S. visit a "very positive element" and said, "We feel that the Contact Group should first develop a common approach and then present it to the parties in ex-Yugoslavia." It would appear that in neither case did the Americans take charge. In 1993 there was only one big bully in the Balkans--the Serbs. Now there are two, and the consequences...