Word: connection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is very little you cannot reach from Zeng's tiny room: Tibetan-freedom websites, raunchy Danish porn, headlines from the New York Times. Zeng's 1,000 Internet subscribers can dial into his computers from all over Beijing and connect nearly limitlessly to the electronic world. They can send e-mail, photos and news of China. And they can receive practically anything else. When the government blocks a website, as it still is wont to do from time to time, Zeng's customers simply surf elsewhere. Is reuters.com jammed? They can jump to washingtonpost.com...
...program aims to get girls to connect with science and become interested in subjects which ordinarily they would have avoided...
...world is no easy task. Out of our "constellations of memory" (stolen from Sartre), we graft purpose onto an acted past, we draw narratives commemorating that which we later feel is significant, we weave quilts of determination out of a randomized existence, and we build brick cities to connect everyone with everything and everything to a purpose. We want to make sense of the lived environment and often we do--too often. For if it is possible to do so from marble. Why we choose one over the other is a matter of preference, economy, geography, history. Yet the possibility...
Shawn J. Bohen, the administrative director of the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations, which is only a year old, says her center "hopes to connect the dots...
...want to connect people to create research and learning opportunities helping [students] to take full advantage of the opportunities the University offers while [they're] here," Bohen says...