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...sights are more forlorn than an old sci-fi film whose predictions of the future have, with the passing of time, been proved incorrect. We watch the flying cars, the robotic dogs, the pills that expand with a drop of water into seven-course meals and think: "This future's already past. This film was set in 1980; it's 1999 already, and none of this has happened." It's a fate worse than simply being dated. Films set in the hippie '60s or the greedy '80s will always have a time and place; futuristic failures belong nowhere, residing...
...being. Men, individually and collectively, have always known the real truth about the female being. And they have been guarding this secret for some time, even going to war to protect it. If we replace the word "body" with "being" when discussing both women and men, we can expand our attempts to truly understand each other's identity. JEANNE BELOVITCH Boston...
Although the CPD is not planning more outreachprograms, Williams says it will expand itssuccessful bike patrols as another way ofincreasing contact with the community...
...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) spent yesterday morning on the steps of the State House protesting a trio of bills to expand prison labor...
These incentives to expand help create cities that widen much faster than their populations grow. Between 1990 and 1996, metro Kansas City spread 70%, while its population, now 1.9 million, increased just 5%. In that period greater Portland, Ore., spread just 13%, the same growth rate as its population, now 1.7 million. For a long time Portland has been the laboratory city for smart growth. In 1979, as part of its compliance with a groundbreaking statewide land-use law, Portland imposed a "growth boundary," a ring enclosing the city proper and 23 surrounding towns...