Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fine-tune a community with a thoroughness that sometimes seems virtually totalitarian. A homeowner will be told how close to a lot line he can build or plant trees, how high his fences may be, what additions he may build. A piggery war broke out in Bolton, Mass., a town that traditionally earned its living by raising swine. Newcomers to the town proposed an ordinance limiting new piggeries to a maximum of eight swine. They were angrily voted down. A man named Stephen Kenney was hauled before the village court in the Buffalo suburb of Kenmore and ordered...
Thinking Machines Corp. is not the only game in town. BBN, Intel and Floating Point Systems have shipped parallel-processing computers that are nearly as ambitious, and a pair of start-up companies, Encore and Sequent, are finding a ready market for more modest parallel machines. Meanwhile, research teams across the U.S. are experimenting with even more radical designs. Among them: AT&T Bell Laboratories computer circuits that mimic the action of the billions of neurons in the human brain. "It's a time for experimentation," says Illinois' Smarr. "There are 1,000 flowers blooming...
...rolling country on both sides of the Mississippi, a low-key picnic atmosphere was typical in many spots, with impromptu bluegrass or pop concerts. In Memphis even Elvis joined up as one fan grabbed the hand of his statue and another his leg. In the farm town of Lonoke, Ark., the throng that had gathered unashamedly shouted out "I love America...
Bulldozers last week razed the charred ruins at Crossroads, a black squatter camp five miles southeast of Cape Town, where fierce fighting between radical youths and conservative vigilante groups left at least 36 dead and more than 30,000 homeless. At the same time, the South African government was debating new measures to grant security forces sweeping powers to control the turbulence that has wracked the country for the past 21 months. Critics charge that the proposals, which would allow police to detain people for up to 180 days without trial, will reinforce the apartheid system and virtually reinstitute...
...Moscow, Soviet officials released new details of the accident. Yevgeni Velikhov, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, conceded that the 25,000 evacuees from Pripyat, the town nearest the plant, will probably never return to their homes. Velikhov said that while radiation levels have dropped sharply about 40 miles from Chernobyl, extensive decontamination measures will be needed to make the immediate vicinity livable. He said the shattered reactor core, which is being entombed in concrete, remains hot beneath the 5,000-ton pile of sand, lead pellets and boron that helicopters have dumped to seal in radiation. Said...