Word: massed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nervous people jump at shadows. If the leadership looks through its colored glass and sees a potentially threatening mass organization, the view from ground level is very different. Falun Gong is, for instance, an organization not of militant students but of housewives, retirees and administrators. Practitioners make Falun Gong sound like a sort of Buddhism Lite with quaintly named breathing exercises and a clean-scrubbed ethic that disapproves of smoking, drinking and the crass materialism of today's China. Sophie Xiao has been practicing Falun Gong for two years and says it has given her "answers to things...
...other, both made of materials that seal out dust but trap heat. Then he wraps his wrists and ankles, pulls a rubber respirator over his head and climbs more than 200 ft. into the narrow space between the Capitol's inner and outer domes. Gilbo, who lives in Georgetown, Mass., is part of a 10-man crew removing poisonous lead paint from cast-iron walls in temperatures that regularly soar above 100[degrees]F. "It's a pretty hostile environment," says Gilbo, who says he sweats off 4 lbs. during every 12-hour shift...
...Space Museum or the Washington Monument, but rather the region right next to the foot of Metro escalators. D.C. workers complain incessantly of the constant clogging of the Metro system by clueless tourists, but blame the geniuses who created the most confusing form of mass transportation in the nation, maybe even the world. The system charges different amounts for every trip, implements other prices at rush hour and forces passengers to use their cards to get both in and out of the stations. Locals have no trouble with this, but out-of-towners tend to stand around the machines helplessly...
...didn't, not really, though Apple products from the Lisa to the LaserWriter have certainly pointed the way. Back when the first Macs were rolling out in the early '80s, the mass market Jobs was aiming for didn't yet exist--at least not at the prices he was charging. Since then, the operating-system wars--and years of bumbling management--have taken their toll on the company. By the time Microsoft's Windows captured the OS flag, the software community had largely stopped writing programs for the Mac--a leading indicator of Apple's long, slow and very painful...
...applaud Ivins' sentiments, but what a pity she couldn't laud Americans without sneering at the Germans and the Canadians! It ruined the Essay for me. MARTIN S. GILLIESON Hingham, Mass...