Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost from the day they were married eleven years ago, Chuck Dribin and his wife Alice Eysenbach began salting away savings toward a home in suburban Chicago. "But something always seemed to happen," recalls Dribin, 38, a high school speech teacher. "Every time we saved $5,000, interest rates jumped...
"I am this hybrid creature," Rushdie said shortly before going into hiding. Most of his life has been spent as an outsider, an alien among local populations. He was born in Bombay in 1947, two months before the British pulled out of India; his parents were well-to-do Kashmiri...
Otherwise, Baker was like someone on an all-you-can-visit tour, racing through 14 European capitals (not to mention Ottawa) in eight days. His visit was long enough for him to see that Western Europe is in the grip of Gorby fever: in response to Mikhail Gorbachev's disarming...
When he talked to the nation a fortnight ago, President George Bush did not even hint at the problem. Budgets and inside-the-Beltway bickering over appointees have blocked out real life. Meanwhile, Les Brown of Worldwatch Institute quietly sent out copies of his State of the World report, which...
The nightmare seems like something out of the Middle Ages: an army of voracious rats emerges from Boston's sewer system, inspiring fear and loathing around the city. The rodents stream past Faneuil Hall, invading the festive food booths of Quincy Market. Soon the rats spread across Boston Common to...