Word: interactively
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...SimEarth, as in the real world, the great natural processes that shape the environment -- volcanoes, erosion, continental drift -- interact with one another. Climate, vegetation and geology are represented as interrelated systems, each with controls that can be adjusted. Animals multiplying too fast? Just crank down the reproduction dial. Tired of waiting for evolution to work its wonders? Just speed up the mutation rate. Earth getting too hot for its own good? Just turn off the greenhouse effect...
This life-style carries risk. "People freak out when they see us interact as a family," says Maria. Neighbors in their Hispanic district have escalated from hurling insults to flinging garbage to tossing firecrackers through an open window. Even in more tolerant communities, lesbians may face subtle discrimination. Angela Bowen, 54, a divorced, free-lance writer in Boston, has maintained a union with Jennifer Abod, 44, a media producer, for 11 years, but because the relationship has no legal status, Abod's health insurance will not cover Bowen or Bowen's daughter...
Ruales and her "mother" both happen to be Hispanic. But other such families are interethnic. That would be highly unlikely in a men's prison, where blacks, Hispanics and whites often segregate themselves and interact only violently. Warders who have worked with inmates of both sexes unanimously testify that the women are far less violent. In California there has been no riot among women prisoners in the past dozen years...
...Tufts find that the women's center is not always as inclusive as it could be. "The Women's Center is plagued like other groups on campus. What they do in their own community is great stuff but I think there is an inability to interact with most of the student body," says Nick Karno, a Tufts junior...
...dynamics between Pizarro and Incan ruler Atahuallpa (Alex Pak), for example, are wonderful. The two gradually learn to interact as equals who allow free rein to their mutual fascination. Atahuallpa and Pizarro strike up a humorous, thought-provoking dialogue in the midst of adversity. While Atahuallpa is held prisoner by the Spaniards in his own palace, he jokes with Pizarro, "Your pope is mad, he gives away countries that are not his." Later, he quips of transubstantiation, "First [Christ] becomes a biscuit and then they eat him and then they drink his blood...