Word: wave
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...discussion groups or the 2,500 electronic newsletters or the tens of thousands of computers with files to share. Instead of feeling surrounded by information, first-timers ("newbies" in the jargon of the Net) are likely to find themselves adrift in a borderless sea. Old-timers say the first wave of dizziness doesn't last long. "It's like driving a car with a clutch," says Thomas Lunzer, a network designer at SRI International, a California consulting firm. "Once you figure it out, you can drive all over the place...
Increasingly, liberals like Pagan in big and small cities alike are replacing pity with "pragmatism," as Pagan calls his approach. As they do so, they are riding a wave of resentment building up against America's most disenfranchised population. The sympathy of the 1980s that gave way to compassion fatigue by the turn of the decade is now an open expression of loathing for the homeless. Once romanticized as impoverished casualties of an uncaring society, America's homeless -- who number anywhere from 600,000 to 3 million, depending on whose count you believe -- are now more likely to be demonized...
...beguiling if mysterious visage is the product of a computer process called morphing -- as in metamorphosis, a striking alteration in structure or appearance. When the editors were looking for a way to dramatize the impact of interethnic marriage, which has increased dramatically in the U.S. during the latest wave of immigration, they turned to morphing to create the kind of offspring that might result from seven men and seven women of various ethnic and racial backgrounds...
Three times in the past decade, Miami has erupted in racial disturbances -- caused in part by blacks frustrated as each new immigrant wave passes them by economically. The black Cuban-American neighborhood of Allapattah now serves as an uneasy buffer between the blacks of Liberty City and the white Cubans and Nicaraguans living in Little Havana. But Dade County board chairman Art Teele, a black who won his job with the backing of the commission's new Latino members, doesn't see race as the problem. "There is some lingering resentment by the blacks," he admits, "but today they...
...Irish migration began to recede, a second great wave -- of Germans (or perhaps more properly, German speakers) -- began. As Oscar Handlin pointed out in his classic study The Uprooted, most 19th century European immigrants thought of themselves not as ex-citizens of a national state (which, in the case of Poland, for instance, did not even exist) but as speakers of a common tongue, or residents of a particular village or province. The Germans were lured by the vision of unlimited economic opportunity and greater freedom than Central Europe offered in the post-Napoleonic...