Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior in high school and you're a girl, College Week--an annual pilgrimage of sun-starved New England undergraduates to a Mecca for Anglophilic vacationers--presents unprecedented opportunities for deviant behavior, including the ever-popular boozin,' cruisin,' and woosin.' So it's not all that surprising that placing 10 less-than-mild-mannered 17 year-old girls in this resort haven with minimal supervision during Spring recess would satisfy an Irwin Allen formula for disaster...
...escapes from the confines of Sandusky, Ohio, where their talent as dancers is neither appreciated nor taken seriously. Dance being, of course, for bidden in Ohio, the kids is forced to rehearse in abandoned warehouses and to run away to New York without telling their parents. New York, that mecca of artistic opportunity, proves to be tougher than this bunch bargained for. Braving myriad evils, from muggers to threatening rival dance groups, from discouraging agents to hordes of mohawked, leather-clad punks, the Adventurous Eight pirouette their way to stardom, shedding only a few poignant tears of disappointment along...
Some municipalities have tried to drive out their homeless. In Phoenix, a Sunbelt mecca for jobless Northerners, the city in the past two years has closed three soup kitchens and torn down ten welfare hotels. The city still has 3,000 street people. In Santa Cruz, Calif., last summer, there were 19 attacks on homeless people, known locally as trolls because they live under bridges. Many of the assaults were attributed to teen-agers, some of whom later sported TROLL BUSTER T shirts...
Another benefit of having attended a hoop mecca is that the DeMatha Boys know what winning is all about. "At DeMatha," says Smith, "there's a winning foundation, a tradition...
...computer whiz kids are finally getting their due. In a new book called Hackers (Doubleday; $17.95), Writer Steven Levy argues that these "science-mad people" are the true heroes of the computer revolution. He traces the history of hackers from M.I.T.'s Tech Model Railroad Club, their first mecca, to Silicon Valley's Homebrew Computer Club, an early microcomputer gathering spot, to a video-game factory in Coarsegold, Calif. Through it all he discerns a common thread: the unspoken assumption among crack computer programmers and engineers that they could straighten out the world by dint of their intelligence...