Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the Spratly Islands. A CIA report last May said China might deserve sanctions because it sold ballistic-missile components to Iran and Pakistan. The U.S. is holding up China's application for membership in the World Trade Organization. And the U.S. recognition last week of Vietnam, China's neighbor and frequent enemy, fuels Beijing's fears that Washington has malign strategic intentions...
...Robert Thomas, the so-called Marquis de Sade of cyberspace, who works very hard selling pornography to computer users: I wouldn't feel comfortable having him as a next-door neighbor or seeing his guests pull up in his driveway. I would certainly not be relaxed if my children went to play with his. Money isn't a neutral commodity. What you sell is what you are. MARI MARGARET CLAUSEN Heidelberg, Germany...
...much gray hair I had and clearly see the lines on my face." Like many women her age, Marten, 46, is being encouraged by her gynecologist to try hormone-replacement therapy. She's resisting, and yet, like so many women, she's sorely tempted. Her 80-year-old neighbor has been on estrogen since age 40 and is "so buoyant it's remarkable," says Marten...
Koernke's former neighbor in Gallagher Lake Estates (about 15 miles north of the dilapidated farmhouse Koernke, his wife and four children occupy today outside the town of Dexter) recalls him as friendless. On the 20-minute walk home from the school-bus stop younger children would taunt the gangly, bespectacled high school student and slap his books from his hands. His former classmates and teachers at Dexter High School remember him as having one or two friends but also, as one puts it, "some exotic ideas." Several remember he wore fatigues to school, a peculiar fashion choice at that...
...come to exert its own pull. "I know nobody who has given it up, except for reasons of infirmity, advancing age and incapacity," he says. "It holds the attention firmly, because there is always something new to learn, new discoveries to make." People who want a garden because the neighbor has one and hire someone else to install it may gradually be smitten by what's out there, want to know more, marvel at the changes each morning in the drape of a vine or the paths of the bees. Soon they will no longer have a garden; their gardens...