Word: pods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boston's Suffolk County House of Correction, like the new Suffolk County Jail four miles away, is typical of the new design. Each housing unit is a self-contained triangular pod consisting of 30 to 60 cells on two floors overlooking a common room. Prisoners are separated into units according to their conduct rather than the seriousness of their crimes. Good behavior is rewarded with advancement through a series of increasingly privileged units, the highest of which allows inmates to spend the day in the common room, locked in with only one or two unarmed officers. Meals are shipped from...
...Physics is a dead end professionally, you whiners," retorted Cabot Professor of Formaldehyde Arthur O. Pod '49. "It's the graveyard of academic careers...
...Pod added, "The Physics Department is Der Spiegel Biology, because it confuses excellence with things German in the same manner as people who buy Der Spiegel from Out of Town News, although admittedly with less unction...