Word: coring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your idea of a typical Internet junkie is a teenage male with Coke-bottle glasses and a pocket protector who speaks Klingon, guess again. A study presented to the British Psychological Society Tuesday claims that the new archetype of the hard-core user is much older -- and a woman. According to Dr. Helen Petrie, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, roughly equal numbers of men and women from among the 445 individuals surveyed identified themselves as addicts, but women "seemed to be more addicted to the Net than men were. They showed more positive feelings about using...
...Henn co-chaired a conference at Princeton. "The idea was to inspire Jersey's K-12 educators to embrace an integrative approach to learning and move away from structuring class time into segregated disciplines," explains Andrews. "Another goal was to influence policymakers to integrate environmental issues into the core curriculum of public schools." That conference led to a three-day symposium this past summer at Ramapo College of New Jersey on the same subject for public school teachers and administrators...
...voting to impeach, DeLay gave assurances. The G.O.P. has paid its price at the ballot box, he said, and lost in part because disaffected conservative voters stayed home. Those same voters would interpret backing down from impeachment now as the ultimate capitulation. "The 35% that is our hard-core base wants the process to go forward," insists a G.O.P. leadership aide. "We can't substitute censure for impeachment. They'd kill...
Which is not to say that the Edo period lacked individual artists who were seen, then and now, as stars. Its core achievement, in painting, was the allusive and delicate work of the so-called Rimpa artists: Tawaraya Sotatsu and Hon'ami Koetsu in the 17th century, and later the brothers Ogata Korin and Ogata Kenzan, Sakai Hoitsu and others. The show abounds in their work, especially the large folding screens that were Japan's closest equivalent to Western murals. Hoitsu (1761-1828) is represented by one of his finest screens, Flowers and Grasses of Summer and Autumn, in which...
...Jews in the city. His reasoning is that he wishes to be promoted to municipal secretary, a position he has been working toward for 17 years but also a position which his faith has prevented him from achieving. Christian sentiment, however, scorns the newly converted as Jewish at the core in spite of any baptism ceremony they may have undergone. Karl, while achieving his desired post, begins to receive criticism from members of the community...