Word: conquered
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...current generation of college students, who can find themselves caught between middle- aged computer whizzes and elementary school kids who seem to have been wired since birth. During the first month of her course, teacher Fulton, who designed the class two years ago, exhorts her students to conquer the Net before they do anything else. They become comfortable using BBSs (bulletin-board systems), IRC (Internet Relay Chat), MUDs (multiple-user dungeons), Usenet newsgroups and such World Wide Web browsers as Mosaic and Gopher. But Fulton also engages them in discussions of related social and political issues such as privacy, universal...
...contrary, argues Oxford historian Theodore Zeldin, things have just started to get interesting. In An Intimate History of Humanity (HarperCollins; 488 pages; $25), he offers a quirky but intellectually dazzling view of our past and future by discussing such subjects as the different ways that nations have tried to conquer fear, the reason that humanity has made more progress in cooking than in making love, and the history of conversation. This last subject is central to Zeldin's book: encounter, he says, is the key to progress...
...lived in London all her life, Bussell is often characterized as having a distinctly American style. That is shorthand for speed, an audacious freedom of movement and an offhand, nonshowy virtuosity-all qualities that make Bussell exhilarating to watch. With such a style, it was inevitable that she would conquer America, and she did so in June 1993 at the gala marking New York City Ballet's Balanchine celebration. To dramatize the international impact of Balanchine's work, artistic director Peter Martins invited some foreign dancers to perform with the company. Bussell was ablaze in the sexy pas de deux...
...case, Harvard students shouldn't feel complacent just because we've got New Haven licked. We've got the rest of the Ivy League to conquer, not to mention the rest of the world. We need to expand our minds, broaden our horizons, think in new ways just like the Core taught...
...often that Washington inspires American business leaders to rise from their seats and dream out loud about the economic frontiers that suits and pols can conquer together. But the prospect that Congress was coming closer last week to approving the new global trade treaty -- one of the most far-reaching acts of economic legislation in U.S. history -- had the chief economist for one of the nation's biggest food exporters talking the language of Manifest Destiny. "We're going to grow more grain. We're going to grow more beef. We're going to be slaughtering more hogs...