Word: dying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even among the leaders of the computer equal-rights movement, however, some old assumptions die hard. In Deborah Brecher's Women's Computer Literacy Handbook, a book-length version of the San Francisco course, computer programs are likened to cookbook recipes, data flows from a buffer like water from a bathtub, and bits and bytes are pictured as shoe boxes full of tiny babies who sit to represent the binary digit 0 and stand to represent the digit...
...civil war, together with a drought and famine that are among the worst in Africa, has virtually destroyed Mozambique's economy. Despite international food aid that this year will total $200 million, Mozambican officials say thousands who have not made their way to coastal resettlement camps will die of starvation...
...warm (and loving) glance at two 17-year-old fiances. Sitting on a hill overlooking their town, Mag (Sarah Jane Cohen) and Joe (Aaron Carlos) try to study for final exams but mainly dream of their future together. Before long, Friel introduces a tragic twist: the couple will die in a boating accident before the afternoon is over...
Advocating universal friendship, Turner faulted political leaders for lacking a global perspective. "Different political systems around the world are not something to die over," he said. "Why can't we love everybody in the world? I've done...
...this, the air is so thin that ordinary people can live for only several hours -- if at all. Trapped in the so-called death zone, says one climber who is familiar with these altitudes, "you can't shout for help anymore. You lose your sense of logic. And you die in euphoria, overestimating your own strength...