Word: planet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people argue against the fundamental rightness of stigmatizing and ultimately trying to rid the planet of a weapon that maims and kills more than 2,000 people every month. But experts on the ground fear that the high-profile diplomatic campaign for a ban may detract from the less glamorous work of removing some of the millions of mines already planted...
...after the Rodney King beating, Los Angeles is policed very differently. The L.A.P.D. has shown impressive progress. Its percentage of white officers has decreased from 61.3% in March '91 to 50% in July '97, producing a rank and file less likely to see a minority community as a hostile planet. The proportion of female officers, whom studies show are less prone to abusive behavior, has increased from 13.3% to 17.4% in the same time period. Citizen complaints are monitored by a new office of inspector general. "It's quite a different face on the Los Angeles police department," says Edith...
Your articles underlined the urgent need to turn our fishermen into farmers--sea farmers. Rather than battling over fishing rights, nations should be establishing giant seafood farms in the multiplicity of bays and gulfs on our planet. If we are to survive, aquaculture must become as ordinary as agriculture. GILLIAM CLARKE Wesley Chapel...
...credit rating. He could have eavesdropped on my telephone conversations or siphoned off my E-mail. He could have called in my mortgage, discontinued my health insurance or obliterated my Social Security number. Like Sandra Bullock in The Net, I could have been a digital untouchable, wandering the planet without a connection to the rest of humanity. (Although if I didn't have to pay back school loans, it might be worth it. Just a thought...
...were told Yogi gave her a "boo-boo," and when she (yes, the robot is a girl) made a close approach to another one, we were informed that "Sojourner and Barnacle Bill are holding hands." Kind of made you look at the vast red deserts of the two-mooned planet and want to go "Coochy-coochy-coo!" Or, depending on your sensibilities, retire to the bathroom and retch...