Word: summers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When students went back to school last week at Permian High in Odessa, Texas, they wondered what had happened to the place over the summer. Gone was their old wide-open campus, now surrounded by a security fence with controlled entry points and clusters of surveillance cameras. Inside the school, they had to wear bar-coded photo-ID badges, and in many classrooms, "black boxes" with mirrored eyes stared implacably down from the walls, above signs that read, IT SHOULD BE ASSUMED THERE IS A CAMERA INSIDE THIS ENCLOSURE RECORDING VIDEO AND AUDIO...
...everyone accepts that all this is warranted. "Over this summer, we have had school boards putting together the most restrictive policies we have ever seen," says Diana Philip, director of the A.C.L.U. of Texas for the northern region, which has filed several suits against schools. "A lot of them are in clear violation of the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees freedom from unreasonable searches." Before police can legally search someone, they generally must have "probable cause" to believe the person has committed a crime. But courts have recently given schools wide leeway in searching lockers, cars and backpacks and administering drug...
...summer the Family has kept a fearful eye on the forces advancing on the Kremlin. Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's mayor and the chief (if undeclared) aspirant to Yeltsin's throne, has long been the Kremlin's top rival. In early August, when Luzhkov's party allied with a bloc of Russia's muscular regional leaders (once loyal Yeltsin vassals), Yeltsin was infuriated. The alliance laid bare how fast and far power was draining from the Kremlin. Luzhkov's courtship of Yevgeni Primakov, the former Prime Minister sacked in May, to lead his party in the Duma campaign further caused Yeltsin...
...This summer scooters have become a hot accessory, popping up in movies (American Pie, the new Austin Powers), fashion spreads, music videos and ads (Doc Martens, IBM). Especially popular on both coasts, Vespas are a favored toy of such celebrities as Ellen DeGeneres (girlfriend Anne Heche gave her one) and Jerry Seinfeld (who paid some $10,000 for his rare 1962 Grand Sport). So popular have they become that Piagio plans to return to the U.S. market with environmentally compliant Vespas in 2000. "This is the year for scooters," says Erik Larson of the Scooter Shop in Orange, Calif...
...magazines to reinforce the message. The state of Maine will post weekly foliage updates beginning September 15. In Vermont, state officials smugly point out that the drought hasn't hit their state as hard, especially in the northern half. Meanwhile, Rhode Island, suffering through its worst summer for rain in recorded history, has given up on promoting leaves and instead would like you to know that there are plenty of other pleasant things to do in the Ocean State. Fall branch tour, anyone...