Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...square-mile heart of Overtown was sealed off, reopened, then closed again. Police helicopters hovered over head. On Wednesday, with the neighbor hood edging toward a full-fledged riot, 250 police, most armed with shotguns, swarmed in once again. Many acted in discriminately: one shopkeeper was clubbed and another was mauled by police dogs. The mobs they faced were amorphous, but sometimes 500 strong...
Although similarities exist with the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, there are also major differences. The Soviet Union, for one thing, is dealing with a neighbor, not a nation 10,000 miles away, and thus it is not plagued by long supply lines. More important, Moscow does not need to be concerned about domestic opposition to the war. Says a senior British official: "There has been no television coverage of the war in Afghanistan, so Moscow does not have to worry too much about what the folks back home are thinking...
Although Moscow initially was surprised at the fervor of the Afghan resistance movement, the Soviets may no longer be trying to crush the rebels. If the Soviet objective is to control the Afghan government, the major cities and the economy, as well as ensure that its neighbor does not fall prey to an Islamic revolution like Iran's, Moscow may have achieved its goals...
Sherry Turkic, a sociologist now finishing a book titled The Intimate Machine: Social and Cultural Studies of Computers and People, sees the prospect of change in terms of perceptions and feelings. Says she: "Children define what's special about people by contrasting them with their nearest neighbors, which have alway been the animals. People are special because they know how to think. Now children who work with computers see the computer as their nearest neighbor, so they see that people are special because they feel. This may become much more central to the way people think about themselves...
...predicate. Thus "Food-p?" means "Are you hungry?" Or "State of the world-p?" might elicit a literal "Yes, the world is O.K.," but the hackers acclaim a nonsense reply: "Yes, the world has a state." The classic pun involves a hacker who wanted to know whether a neighbor would like to share a bowl of soup big enough to feed two and asked, "Split-p soup...