Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students from many East-Coast colleges, including all eight Ivies, attended the conference. Others came from as far away as Notre Dame, he said...
...gradual, wistful loss of his Utopian enthusiasms, though, that shapes Seabrook's narrative. Inspired by the promise of a "virtual community" to join the Well, a legendary West Coast bulletin-board system, Seabrook learns in various hard ways that a community of digital beings can be just as constraining--and cruel--as the corporeal kind. Unwritten rules abound, and when Seabrook breaches a few, the Well's otherwise benevolent group mind turns on him in what one Well veteran calls a Chicken Peck--"where one of the flock shows a bit of blood, and a few of the other chickens...
...raised concerns about the safety in the airspace between New York and Washington, D.C. As an investigation into Wednesday's incident continues, Pentagon officials insist that the two Air National Guard F-16 fighters were not toying with a Nations Air jet flying off the New Jersey coast. The pilot of the Boeing 727 followed safety procedures and went first into a steep dive, then a sharp climb, jostling the 84 people aboard. At least one of the F-16s stayed reportedly within 400 feet of the plane. Air traffic controllers could not help, because the aircrafts' radar blips...
...neurons destined to become part of the cerebral cortex. Because they arise relatively late in the development of the mammalian brain, billions of these cells must push and shove their way through dense colonies established by earlier migrants. "It's as if the entire population of the East Coast decided to move en masse to the West Coast," marvels Yale University neuroscientist Dr. Pasko Rakic, and marched through Cleveland, Chicago and Denver to get there...
With that, the liberal Senator vowed to travel coast-to-coast to champion the causes of the underclass, as Robert F. Kennedy '48 and Eleanor Roosevelt did before...