Word: cornucopia
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...classes begin this week, we are elated by the cornucopia of new courses in some departments and depressed at the dearth of options in many Core subcommittees...
...doesn't look like much of a marvel. If anything, it appears to be just a bunch of ordinary personal computers, a couple of feet high, wired together and left running in a corner. But stored on disks in these machines is an extraordinary medical cornucopia: the details of thousands of heart attacks painstakingly etched into silicon over nearly 30 years. Each spasm, each chemical released into the bloodstream by a dying heart muscle, each patient's treatment, is registered in this giant multivariate database by doctors, nurses and researchers at Duke University. The heart of the Medical Center...
They aren't dueling over peanuts: enormous fortunes await those whose software guides consumers through the cornucopia of goods and services that will comprise tomorrow's World Wide Web. Netscape founder Jim Clark realized this first, and his company released the initial--and now dominant--mainstream Web browser back in October '94. Today it enjoys a $3.5 billion market capitalization despite sales of just $80 million in 1995. Bill Gates saw the light last winter, famously stating that Microsoft was "hardcore about the Internet," and, to prove it, turning the $75 billion company, and its $8.7 billion of annual sales...
...fourth floor of Garden Street was a veritable cornucopia of diversity. A word with powerful positive associations, "diversity" has become the buzzword of the educational establishment in the 1990s. College viewbooks use it on every page. Crimson profiles of the undergraduate houses proclaim each house "unified yet diverse, diverse yet unified." The term is invoked so frequently that it seems to have lost any real meaning. Instead, it simply functions as attractive packaging for controversial liberal programs. When President Neil L. Rudenstine wanted to defend Harvard's affirmative action policies in the wake of a heated national debate over racial...
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