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Communities that fail to do so face the prospect of having human waste flow untreated into rivers or even back up into basements. Robert Silvus, head of the waste-water section of the Texas department of water resources, describes the situation delicately: "There are parts of the year when our water is effluent-dominated...
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...
Reatha Brown has been lobbying for a new carpet, but she is becoming resigned to the prospect that the family will acquire a new hard-disc drive instead. "The video-assette recorder," she sighs, pointing across the room, "that was my other carpet." Replies her husband, setting forth an argument that is likely to be replayed in millions of households in the years just ahead: "We make money with the computer, but all we can do with a new carpet is walk on it. Somebody once said there were five reasons to spend money: on necessities, on investments, on self...
...Solidarity era had offered some prospect of a better future. Says Ewa: "I would not have had another child if I hadn't thought there was reason for hope." The couple named their baby Lech...
That would be welcome news in some quarters. Bankers, for example, now view the prospect of a break in prices with the same horror that they once reserved for ever rising energy costs. A steep price drop could crush an ailing oil exporter like Mexico, which has borrowed billions from international banks and is already in the midst of an economic crisis. Sharply lower prices would also bankrupt some existing high-cost exploration and production ventures...