Word: vanished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...career, announced that he had been infected by the human immune-deficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS and would "have to retire from the Lakers today." Although he has as yet no symptoms of AIDS, the man who had defied gravity, and belief, for so long would suddenly, overnight, vanish from the court. "I'm going to miss playing," said Johnson, dry-eyed and dignified as ever, "but my life is going to go on. I'm going to go on a happy...
...want to know whether America still works, then ask whether California still works. Does the reckless American hospitality to immigrants still accomplish its transformations and synergies? Can America still absorb so many disparate values and traditions and form them into a successful society? Or will the nation vanish into an incoherent future? Consult California...
...nation to buy white onepocket T-shirts and buttonfly jeans, as the owners of Bennigan's and T.G.I. Friday's sit at their fern-ensconced tables to count their millions, as another Virginia family drives away with another unassembled tan sofa from Ikea, our senses of place and identity vanish into the democratic emptiness of Gapified America...
...recent study by M.I.T. linguist Ken Hale estimates that 3,000 of the world's 6,000 languages are doomed because no children speak them. Researchers estimate that Africa alone has 1,800 languages, Indonesia 672 and New Guinea 800. If a language disappears, traditional knowledge tends to vanish with it, since individual language groups have specialized vocabularies reflecting native people's unique solutions to the challenges of food gathering, healing and dealing with the elements in their particular ecological niche. Hale estimates that only 300 languages have a secure future...
...canvas backdrop. Hochstein thinks there is a happy paradox here: "The sameness of the background emphasizes the personalities of the people." That is clear in the pictures for this week's cover story; no one who sees them will easily forget Coupon's subjects, even if their cultures vanish forever...