Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from then on) has overflowed with machismo. It was not just the Vanderbilts, the Liptons, the Ted Turners, the Alan Bonds, the Baron Bichs and the Raul Gardinis out to prove who was the richest, swiftest guy on the dock. The very image of the U.S. as a mega-tech superpower seemed at stake. Let Airbus lend its experts to the French, let the Australians weigh in with winged keels, let the Japanese marshal their mighty corporate establishment; the best of Boeing, Lockheed, M.I.T. and General Motors would jump to attention with aerodynamicists, meteorologists, computer analysts, naval architects and fluid...
...former clinic in downtown Reno was fire-bombed four times, Stutes acknowledges, "I was mad as hell -- and afraid." Today, he is still angry, but has less cause for fear: his new $1 million West End Women's Medical Group clinic, which opened in November, is a high-tech fortress with solid steel doors and magnetic locks, bullet-resistant windows, infrared motion detectors, panic buttons to summon police and a 70-ft. setback planted with thorn trees. Contractors experienced in prison and casino security designed the system, while some local SWAT-team police offered advice. "It's a bunker," Stutes...
...looked good -- if you discount the "boggle" factor. This is a psychological effect Stewart Brand describes in The Media Lab, his 1987 book about M.I.T.'s cutting-edge research facility. It's a sensation familiar to anyone who has spent a day at a high-tech trade show or an hour with a fast- talking computer salesman. Too much happens too fast. There is too much hand waving, too many new things with new names. "The potential for being bamboozled," writes Brand, "is total...
When it comes to organization, however, the troops go high-tech. The militia movement, says Berlet, "is probably the first national movement organized and directed on the information highway." Patriot talk shows, such as The Informed Citizen, a half-hour program broadcast on public-access TV in Northern California, spread the word that American values are under attack from within and without. Militias also communicate via the Patriot Network, a system of linked computer bulletin boards, and through postings in news groups on the Internet. One recent posting by a group calling itself the Pennsylvania Militia, more specifically...
...like Mr. Bloodworth and Ms. Clarke with their preference for Black-solidarist cathartic activism, I persist in articulating to such Black students here at Harvard College what I believe to be a more viable mode of Black-individual and Black-group metamorphosis in our complex post-Capitalist (e.g., Hi-Tech Capitalist, Global Capitalist, etc.) era. Namely--translate your strong cathartic appetite into a strong outreach-to-Black-poor ethos; into an activist healing-hand value orientation that focuses on the manifold crises of cultural life and societal life among our African-American poor (e.g., male violence against women, male neglect...