Word: catalonia
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...Polish Jew, who had never before set foot in Spain, journey across Europe to take up arms with the Catalans? As a boy, I began reading about Barcelona's resistance to Franco and developed a romance with the city. During my teens, I finally made a pilgrimage to Catalonia. It was the week before the New Year, and Barça had no matches scheduled. But to celebrate the holiday season, the club had opened the doors of its stadium, the Nou Camp, to the public, gratis. I sat in a line in the parking lot with young kids, eager...
...BREAK After studying product design in Cape Town and in Zwolle, the Netherlands, and working at Dutch design studio DenHartogMusch and at Alsop Architects, Frank settled in London, where he sells his "free-range" products made of urban detritus (think brick accessory bowl). Soon he plans to relocate to Catalonia, Spain, for the warmer clime. He hopes to teach his sustainable-design techniques to poor South Africans and help them organize a free-trade work group...
...couple not seeking divorce? The word nation is an even deeper linguistic black hole. The constitution refers to "the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation." Clear enough - until you read the proposed new statute of autonomy recently supported by nearly 90% of the Catalan Parliament. Its first clause declares: "Catalonia is a nation." Which has left Zapatero trying to find an alternative form of words that will satisfy his Catalan allies in the Madrid parliament - which must ratify the statute and which has now started debating it - yet won't steadily lead Spain into becoming a nation of nations, something...
...mind, it was to write something unlike the books they had written, even though I admired them. THC: Any authors in particular? AS: Philip Caputo’s “A Rumor of War” and George Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia.” This isn’t a memoir, but Tim O’Brien’s novel “Going After Cacciato.” THC: Do you think you’ll ever return to autobiography? AS: I might, though not for a while. I will...
...write descriptions, or tags, of favorite Web pages using terms they choose to create their own taxonomy of favorite pages (or "folksonomy" as its grassroots adaptation is being termed). Search for the word cheese on del.icio.us, and you'll find e-commerce websites like England's Teddington Cheese and Catalonia's Delinostrum, both of which have been tagged by online customers as part of their own personal folksonomy and then shared with the rest of the online world. No one is yet prepared to crown tagging as a successful business in itself. More likely, tagging will boost online advertising...