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Harvard Square is not landlocked. Subversives may favor cracking open a fire hydrant, but there are plenty of other ways to get wet this summer. The fountain in front of the Science Center is a prime place to cool off. Beaches are within an easy ride by public transportation. And the Charles River, while hazardous to swim in, is perfect for rowing, canoeing or sailing...
Water electronically rationed, cautions a drinking-fountain sign. ECOLOGICAL LAWS STRICTLY ENFORCED, warns a road sign. After decades of environmental neglect, 21st century America is a mighty unpleasant place, a country of heat waves and hurricanes, skin cancer and typhoid. Like 1983's The Day After, which powerfully fantasized a nuclear attack, the mini-series THE FIRE NEXT TIME (CBS, April 18, 20) means to be a cautionary tale about the devastating effects of global warming. Part 1 is a stunner, combining epic special effects with sharp detail to tell the poignant story of an everyfamily struggling to adapt...
...City Hall has bottled water in some locations and fountain water in others," Healy says...
...great computer-mediated gabfest, an interactive debate that allows them to leap over barriers of time, place, sex and social status. Computer networks make it easy to reach out and touch strangers who share a particular obsession or concern. "We're replacing the old drugstore soda fountain and town square, where community used to happen in the physical world," says Howard Rheingold, a California-based author and editor who is writing a book on what he calls VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES...
...three times protesters knocked it down. The list of those arrested for anti-Klan actions included seven whites and six blacks. Ironically, the Klan was backed by a federal court decision requiring the city to permit the placement of a Hanukkah menorah in another part of Fountain Square. Now some residents wonder if a beloved local gathering place will ever be the same. Reflected one: "Fountain Square has been a place where we only celebrated those things that brought us together." The day after the Klan's cross disappeared, a local group raised another, to "bring dignity back...