Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rapid pace, such a prime political feeding ground? The main reason is that the Internet is vastly overrated by those who know nothing about it. The Internet seems futuristic--it comes with trendy catch-phrases such as "information superhighway" and "cyberspace." We listen in awe and wonder as CEOs explain to us, in layman's terms, the importance of "networking" and "global resources." With the Internet, they tell us, we can do everything conceivable with the stroke of a few keys. It will make our lives easier. How? Don't know. It just will...
...Zane continues to look under the bed for his mommy. "Mom's in heaven," Wright tries to explain...
Drew was the child of Pat's change of heart. "Pat was married before," explains Prater, "and after two children she had a tubal ligation." But her second husband Dennis Golden had never had children. Says Prater: "She had the operation reversed so that they could have Drew. That child is the center of their world." Pat and her husband worked long hours to provide for the boy. His grandfather Doug Golden insists that "Drew understood law and order." He believes his grandson wasn't close to Mitchell Johnson. "Did this kid threaten him or intimidate him," he wonders...
Wilson is confident that microbiology and neuroscience will eventually explain everything about the nature of Homo sapiens. "The general structure of the human nerve cell has now been charted in considerable detail," he says. "The stage has been set to attack the master unsolved problem of biology: how the hundred billion nerve cells of the brain work together to create consciousness...
...possible next stop. With cruelly bad luck they might find the place. The author describes an outpost of paranoia and fear festering with something more virulent than countrymen's traditional loathing for outsiders and government bureaucrats. Rumored large discoveries of opals in the surrounding geologic strata don't really explain matters because opal mining has scuffled along here for decades. Except for tankerloads of beer and gasoline, contact with the rest of Australia is largely cut off. Mail to the outside is stamped, sorted and bagged, but not sent out. A schoolteacher who arrives from Brisbane to instruct the settlement...