Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Inie Park '94-'95 said her particular discussion group concluded that "No group could really survive on pure separatism or on the ideal of everyone getting along...
...that I am practically blind from the flashbulbs of the paparazzi, now that I cannot leave my room except when disguised as a tree or a piece of cheese, I find that my adoring public has many questions for me. Like, "What went on behind the scenes of Jurassic Park: The Rock Opera'? Was there laughter? Tears? Hopes? Fears? Smiles? Sighs? Blackened? Eyes?" Rest assured, my friends, that there was all that and more. For example...
...traffic swells, the Internet is beginning to suffer the problems of any heavily traveled highway, including vandalism, break-ins and traffic jams. "It's like an amusement park that's so successful that there are long waits for the most popular rides," says David Farber, a professor of information science at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the network's original architects. And while most users wait patiently for the access and information they need, rogue hackers use stolen passwords to roam the network, exploring forbidden computers and reading other people's mail...
...openly gay Puerto Rican liberal. Yet these days he is best known as the champion of a distinctly unprogressive-sounding cause: an effort to sweep the homeless people from the streets of his district. In 1991 he spearheaded a successful campaign to chase squatters out of Tompkins Square Park. Now he is leading the charge to block radical gay activists from building a day center for drug-addicted, HIV- infected street people -- just a block from two elementary schools...
...exception. Even in communities that boast a spirit of tolerance, citizens are turning their energies to driving out the homeless. In San Francisco, city planners have designed sleep- proof seats to chase the homeless from bus shelters. Santa Monica's police issue citations to people who loiter in parks after midnight; repeat offenders go to jail. Legislators in Madison, Wisconsin, have outlawed "aggressive panhandling." In Atlanta, where civic leaders want to polish their city in preparation for the 1996 Olympics, new ordinances make it illegal to sleep on park benches, wash motorists' windows or even walk onto a parking...