Word: habitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profound belief that there is only oneway to achieve this: we must divest ourselves ofour egotistical anthropocentrism, our habit ofseeing ourselves as masters of the universe whocan do whatever occurs to us. We must discover anew respect for what transcends us: for theuniverse, for the earth, for nature, for life andfor reality. Our respect for other people, forother nations and for other cultures, can onlygrow from a humble respect for the cosmic orderand from an awareness that we are a part of it,that we share in it and that nothing of what we dois last, but rather becomes part...
...culture where book reading is supposed to be an endangered habit, it is an oddly heartening sight. By the end of the year, the U.S. will have more than 450 sprawling, chain-run book emporiums equipped with reading tables, sofas, club chairs and coffee bars. Well over 100 new ones sprang up in 1994; seven will open this year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, alone. These superstores, run by such chains as Barnes & Noble, Borders and Media Play, usually stock around 100,000 titles (in contrast to 20,000 for a typical mall store). But the real attraction is the opportunity...
...overtaxed immigration officer and decides to exploit the error. Families, it seems, have a better chance of attracting sponsorship-and thus escaping from the refugee camps-than singles do. For good measure, she adds a son (a street kid) and a grandpa (a silent, nutty old guy with a habit of shedding his clothes and climbing trees, hoping to glimpse his lost homeland) to her surrogate brood...
Humans have made a long-time habit of struggling with machines of their own construction. Just think of the archetypal office worker, harried by a combination of inscrutable copiers, fax machines, phone systems and computers...
...covers U.S. culture with an emphasis on music). He picks up a notebook and draws a big circle labeled politics intersected by satellites of books, Hollywood, media and music. "Instead of writing about the highest-grossing film, we'll write about the best campaign ad." Kennedy, who has a habit of referring to himself as "sort of'' an editor, laughs at his own doodling. Serious yet humble, he's picked the brains of hundreds of experts...