Word: columbus
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...historic voyage from Lisbon to India--via the Cape of Good Hope--500 years ago. But Lisbon's newest tourist attraction is also a symbol of a growing public interest in underwater zoos, especially those created by Peter Chermayeff of the Massachusetts-based architecture firm Cambridge Seven, the Columbus and Da Gama of aquarium design...
Glenn was bred to be a Republican and straddle racial lines. The youngest son of a retired grade school principal and counselor, he grew up in Columbus, Ga., with parents who stood out for their affiliation with the G.O.P. "My father believed in individual responsibility and less government," says Glenn. He spent his last three years of high school at Episcopal, a D.C.-area boarding school, before heading off to Davidson College, a favorite of Southern gentry. That was followed by stints as a legislative aide to Cochran, a policy assistant in the Bush White House and convention adviser...
Consider First Chicago, which encourages those with Self-Service checking accounts to use ATMs by charging $3 for a visit to a live teller for some transactions. First Chicago announced a merger last week with Banc One Corp. Banc One, based in Columbus, Ohio, does business in 12 states and charges account holders if they use one of its own Rapid Cash Machines. "[The banks] say these mergers create efficiencies," says Mary Griffin of Consumers Union. "But with the efficiencies there is a dis-economy of scale, which costs consumers more." In other words, it costs to save. That...
...centuries go, this has been one of the most amazing: inspiring, at times horrifying, always fascinating. Sure, the 15th was pretty wild, with the Renaissance and Spanish Inquisition in full flower, Gutenberg building his printing press, Copernicus beginning to contemplate the solar system and Columbus spreading the culture of Europe to the Americas. And of course there was the 1st century, which if only for the life and death of Jesus may have had the most impact of any. Socrates and Plato made the 5th century B.C. also rather remarkable. But we who live in the 20th can probably...
Surviving Columbus was produced to commemorate the quincentennial of European presence in America, and traces the often-tumultuous history of the Pueblo Indians in the southwestern United States...