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...suffer from serious mental disorders, mostly schizophrenia and manic depression, as do 10% of the 1 million people behind bars. With 3,600 psychotic inmates, the Los Angeles County jail is "the largest de facto mental institution in the nation," says the report. Countless other distressed people inhabit squalid apartments or transient hotels, without adequate food, clothing or medical care...
...life. The fittest of them survive long enough to produce offspring. Over time their descendants evolve, adapting to changes in their environment. Or they fail to adapt and become extinct. They behave, in short, just like living things -- except that they are not flesh and blood but programs that inhabit the memory of a computer...
BABOON RESERVE, Bronx Zoo. Nubian ibex, rock hyraxes, assorted waterfowl and two troops of threatened gelada baboons inhabit this new 5.5-acre exhibit, which re-creates the high-altitude grasslands of Ethiopia's Amhara Plateau...
...speech entitled "Foragers, Farmers and Rainforest Conservation," David Wilkes said 1986 plans to create a 1.25 million hectacre "biosphere reserve" have been stalled by a lack of political willingness and financial support. As a result, the rainforest and the species that inhabit it are in danger of extinction...
...communications and AIDS, of mass famine and corporate imperialisms, of space exploration and the world's seas awash in plastic? The Age of Leisure and the Age of the Refugee coexist with the Age of Clones and the Age of the Deal. Time is fractured in the contemporaneous. We inhabit not one age but many ages simultaneously, from the Bronze to the Space. Did the Ayatullah Khomeini live in the same millennium as, say, Los Angeles...