Word: disconnectedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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New area codes are triggering identity crises. Onetime 415s in the east Bay Area feel disconnected as 510 holders. In L.A. former 213s in Beverly Hills suffer from haut insecurity with their new 310s. Look for a shift in real estate values.
The same conflict arises in the controversy over testing hospital patients for AIDS. Some people argue for mandatory testing; others insist that it be voluntary. But both groups seem concerned only with the patient's rights. "No one on either side wonders if the patient has a responsibility to his...
The transition from crowded city streets to single-family homes has produced millions of atomized, self-directed people, disconnected from the greater community, until no community remains at all. The block party becomes an empty ritual, an enactment of what it would be like to care about neighbors. Fellow-feeling...
When the batteries ran down, the resulting power failure immediately shut off three huge telephone switches that route some 2 million calls an hour. The collapse disconnected the area's airports from the Federal Aviation Administration's control center on Long Island. As a result, air-traffic controllers were unable...
Humphry proudly asserts that he has assisted three family members in ending their lives when they faced intolerable pain or debilitation: a brother whose life-support machinery was disconnected and a wife and father-in-law who took sleeping pills. A former journalist with the London Sunday Times and Los...