Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opinion became evident between men and women. It was nearly always the men who believed and insisted that the trouble had been money, and it was the women who talked of illness." Yet the story's emphasis falls not on the victims but on the woman, a next-door neighbor, who finds the bodies. Her reaction to the horror she discovers will affect the way others, including her husband and two teenage sons, treat her for the rest of her life. In White Dump a grown daughter is first seen visiting her father and his second wife; the major event...
...shipment of coke hidden in the tires of a 747 jetliner bound for Miami. U.S. officials are concerned that drugs may provoke enough social unrest to lead to civil war and revolution. In Mexico official corruption tied to drug dealing threatens to destabilize America's southern neighbor...
Michael Carey, 32, is an Iowa farmer and poet ("The thing about farming is there is nothing between you and the world") who one day soon will fold his beloved notebook of verse and go down to his cornfields to meet his neighbor Jim Anderzhon. Anderzhon will be there in his John Deere 6620 SideHill combine. Carey cannot afford a combine of his own, so he hires his neighbor's machine. The two will talk the quiet talk of farmers for a few minutes, looking at the breathtaking beauty of abundance. Then, in the huge stillness of dawn along...
...which 25 have been won by the scientific and medical departments, whose scholarly explorations Harvard contemplates with special pride. Among the others: significant discoveries in the fields of chemical bonding, laser spectroscopy and quantum electrodynamics. President Paul Gray of M.I.T., Harvard's great scientific rival and neighbor on the Charles, twits Harvard for its emphasis on esoteric research. "M.I.T.," Gray says, "is more at ease with the real world." To which Paul Martin, dean of Harvard's Division of Applied Sciences, replies with a seigneurish thrust: "The kind of research done here is not on the one-to-three-year...
...pursuit of narcotics traffickers," said Senate Leader Antonio Riva Palacio. In practice, however, American drug agents seem unlikely to leave Mexico, where they have operated since the 1930s. The U.S. needs Mexican help in fighting the incoming flow of drugs, and Mexico needs the goodwill of its northern neighbor to cope with the Latin American country's $98 billion foreign debt. "It's a marriage without divorce," says one U.S. policymaker, of relations between the uneasy neighbors. "That's why we have to find a way to work things...