Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps what most rankles among politicians, parents and scholars is the angry tone of much revisionist rhetoric. Reformers who want to vilify Christopher Columbus because, they say, he slaughtered Native Americans may miss larger truths. "We don't study the Greeks because they had slaves and mistreated women," points out Honig. "Our job in education is to put ideals before kids." But the questions are, Whose ideals? and How should they be portrayed? -- all of which promises to inspire clashes in American classrooms for the foreseeable future...
...year, well over 10 million people will have traveled to America's national parks to see the few tiny patches of land that are still as pristine as they were before Columbus landed, or so most believe. In fact, the National Park Service is coping with a growing problem that is partly nature's doing but largely the result of civilization's subtle intrusions. Far from being islands of primeval beauty, parks from Hawaii to North Carolina are being overrun with nonnative plants and animals, virtually all of them introduced, inadvertently or on purpose, by man. These "exotic threats" have...
...years in between have been a blur of names and journeymen. The Yankees became a shuttle between Columbus, the home of the triple-A minor league squad, and the Big Apple. They were years of mediocre records, middling talent, and half-empty stadiums...
...smack of science fiction, but the planners are deadly serious. The race is being sponsored by the Christopher Columbus Quincentennial Jubilee Commission, which hopes to get the ships launched around Oct. 12, 1992, the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America. Among the spacecraft designers are former NASA and aerospace experts. And included on the committee that will choose the winning designs are Lieut. General James Abrahamson, former head of the Star Wars program, and former astronauts Frank Borman and John Glenn...
Along the waterfront, where Christopher Columbus' statue points triumphantly out to sea, rusty railroad tracks were torn up to make way for two miles of sandy swimming beaches and palm-shaded cafes. About $2 billion worth of stadiums, hotels, restaurants and museums have been built or are under construction, a showcase for internationally known architects such as Richard Meier, Arata Isozaki and Jose Rafael Moneo. "It's an orgy of creativity," says Mayor Pasqual Maragall, grandson of Catalonia's most famous poet. A former lecturer in urban planning at Johns Hopkins University, Maragall invited such American artists as Claes Oldenburg...