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...cyberspace cannot exist in a vacuum. Now, many of its denizens are mourning a paradise lost. Says one user: "The bottom line is that we can't always trust each other and can't always know who is worthy of our trust." Why venture into an F2F when the party on the other side may think it's just a game or an experiment? "I feel like an absolute fool," says Lisa. "People look at a computer and fail to realize that behind those words is a real person with feelings." Welcome back to the real world...
...affected by the coming down of the Berlin Wall. Besides, in the very first paragraph of the new book, we see the Gulf War being followed in a posh Zurich hotel -- the very definition of a safe "neutral" zone -- and are reminded that espionage nature abhors a vacuum: if the cold war is over, a hot one must be cooked up in its place...
HONG KONG -- Deng Xiaoping, China's senior leader, may be too senile to govern. According to a Western diplomatic source, the 88-year-old head of state has lost all real decision-making ability, and now Deng's family members -- some of whom had taken advantage of the authority vacuum -- stand to lose power. Members of the top leadership are distancing themselves from Deng's children, and a corrupt Deng retainer was recently stripped of his immunity from prosecution by the man who may someday officially become Deng's successor, Jiang Zemin...
Even with all these steps, the procedure seems blessedly simple to most women. "Taking a pill seems far less murderous and violent to the child than using a vacuum cleaner," says a 31-year-old woman who has had both types of abortion. "You feel so helpless when they put you to sleep and you know they're going to be using their tubes and knives on you." Some women, however, become traumatized by the thought of performing an abortion with their own hand. After her experience with RU 486, Joelle Mevel, 34, vows that if there is a next...
Union members say they can understand Harvard's attempt to save money in a time where are tight. They say, however that Harvard does not act in a vacuum. As major supplier of construction and renovation work and as the nation's most well-known university, Harvard, they say must realize that it sets a precedent for others to follow...