Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...paid informants and innumerable unofficial snoops who kept tabs on everything from visiting foreigners to the affairs of their neighbors. It kept files on 4 million of the country's citizens as well as 2 million West Germans. Placed end to end, the Stasi's records would reportedly stretch 65 miles, and they have yet to be properly evaluated by the new unified government. The potential for disrupting ordinary lives -- of those guiltless as well as those in secret desperation -- is immense...
...will be nervous until they find their identity, but there is still another reason to be worried. Consider this: We're on the home stretch to the millennium.The end of a century, let alone a millennium, tends to bring forth bursts of energy and confusion. Even in 1990, as the Hubble space telescope peers deeply (sometimes fuzzily) into the cosmos, sliding toward the 20th century's close feels a little like sailing off the edge of the world. No one knows what is beyond...
When rescuers finally fought their way through the fog and the wreckage, they found 83 damaged cars and trucks strung along a half-mile stretch of the Interstate. Thirteen people were killed and 50 hurt in the ill-fated roadway's third -- and worst -- major pileup since 1978. Frightened local motorists and truckers could only wonder: How many next time...
...what a feeling it was! By pointing and clicking my electronic mouse, I could pick up a square of green from one corner of the screen, drop it on a barren stretch of land and watch it blossom into a prairie. I could sprinkle the forest primeval with dinosaurs, insects and birds. I could fill the seas with starfish, lobsters and whales. I could rattle my little planet with computer-generated earthquakes and hurricanes...
There are hundreds of teenagers like Alice in the South Bronx, a crumbling stretch of New York City with one of the country's lowest per capita incomes. They stake out street corners and empty parks. They live in abandoned buildings, discarded cars, rusting boilers and cardboard boxes. Most come from broken homes with abusive parents. Nearly all are addicts, have severe medical problems and are regularly beaten by their customers. Some are killed. In order to aid these kids, Planned Parenthood of New York founded Project Street Beat, a neighborhood organization that trolls the Bronx, visiting the places where...