Word: haven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bank presidents, educators, professionals of every type," he says. His company sells addresses ($9 apiece for two, $7 apiece for up to 13) and leads 11 tours a year to foreign socials, where men can meet the women they've corresponded with. "I've looked all around here and haven't found anyone," says Jeffrey Porter, 48, who owns a construction company in Crown Point, Ind., and shelled out $3,500 for a July trip to St. Petersburg. "I want someone to share a life with...
...change to show up in the social-science data. If IQ tests measure a trait that is genetic, and therefore inherited, or a trait that is culturally transmitted by parents and social class, they would, either way, be unlikely to upend the social order in every generation. And they haven...
...future that seemed perfectly plausible. People like to claim that Orwell "got it wrong," as if it were Orwell's fault that we don't dwell in some ghastly dystopia. His 1984 (published in 1949) is the bitter work of a dying man. Granted, political correctness and language theory haven't become Newspeak just yet. But Orwell's portrait of a debased Britain, singing machine-made pop songs and obsessed with vast public lotteries, has a certain uneasy resonance even...
...grim subject of networked surveillance, maybe Orwell was just a big, mean, bring-down pessimist. On the other hand, we haven't yet seen an Internet society in the grip of a genocidal land war. Security videocams are already ubiquitous; they've become too commonplace for fiction to notice...
...have to be fast, and I like to think of my smallness as sneakiness. I can slip behind people a little easier than taller players. In some ways I have to take two strides when everyone else only needs one, but you learn to get past that and I haven't thought about my size for a long time...