Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proliferation of poison gases, while chilling, is not surprising. "Chemical weapons are the poor man's weapon," explains Etienne Copel, formerly deputy chief of staff of the French air force. "They are cheap, simple to use -- and very effective." The sad fact is that any country with a pesticide factory is capable of making deadly gases. Iraq, for example, produced some of its chemical weapons at a pesticide plant at Samarra. "It's a relatively low-tech option," says Graham Pearson, director of Britain's defensive chemical-warfare program at Porton Down. "And Third World countries appear able to obtain...
...sad fact is that two decades after the Kerner Commission warned that the U.S. was "moving toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal," the nation remains dismayingly segregated in its housing patterns. A recent study by the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank, found that 57% of American whites live in census tracts that are more than 99% white and nearly a third of all blacks live in neighborhoods that are more than 90% black. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that 2 million people encounter racial discrimination in housing every year. Last week...
...FILM SOCIETY. Sad and fiercely funny, this off-Broadway tale of a frustrated teacher in South Africa heralds a striking new American playwright, Jon Robin Baitz...
...medically supervised all-liquid diet three weeks ago). As interviewers go, she is no match for, say, Phil Donahue, whose program was the obvious model for hers. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, however, she makes up in plainspoken curiosity, robust humor and, above all, empathy. Guests with sad stories to tell are apt to rouse a tear in Oprah's eye or get a comforting arm around the shoulder. They, in turn, often find themselves revealing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience. It is the talk show as group-therapy session...
...sad you have to talk to them about it at this age, but times are so different," says Sherri. She speaks as if it has been decades since she was a child. "Under the influence of drugs, 14-year-old boys might decide to go off and grab Bianca. Every time she leaves out the door, it is scary." For both mother and daughter, the nightmares have already begun...