Word: designer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demand that every new product be faster, easier to use and more laden with features than its predecessors. While the job of a landscape architect used to take a T square, years of training and a very fertile imagination, now anyone with the right software and a PC can design six or seven backyards in an afternoon. Mowing the lawn is not generally regarded as a fun chore, but souping up your mower with electronic cruise control and power steering makes it a vastly more enjoyable experience. True, the tractor costs almost as much as a compact...
...about this bike, it's just so cool, it's like I'm in an old Godard movie or something." Or something is right. The highest concentration of these retro-bikes can be found on the racks in front of Gato Rojo and the Graduate School of Design. But the quintessential retro-bike, the Platonic ideal of retro-bikes, the mother ship herself--a model with both a wicker basket and a leather pouch--usually sits regally locked outside the Signet Society. She awaits your admiration...
...moral sexual behavior, for heterosexuals and homosexuals alike, is probably more conservative than the position held by the majority of Harvard students. We find this position summarized in the 1991 U.S. Catholic Conference document Human Sexuality: "Only within marriage does sexual intercourse fully symbolize the Creator's dual design, as an act of covenant love, with the potential of co-creating human life." There is a world of difference, however, in substance, derivation and application between this view and the view that one can be rendered sinful merely by existing in the way in which one is created...
...past his captors; Ed White, who walked in space and died in Apollo 1; Joe Stilwell of China; Lucius Clay of the Berlin airlift; George Goethals of the Panama Canal. The biggest monument, however, a large pyramid, belongs to a general named Egbert Viele. An eminent engineer, he helped design the cemetery, which perhaps explains his prominence. The entrance to the pyramid is guarded by a pair of sphinxes. These are not the original sphinxes, which Mrs. Viele found too buxom, and which were then sunk in the Hudson River. Cemeteries reward the ironist...
...seems to be limited to male members of the corporate world, almost anyone can appreciate the tidbits of advice that constitute the book's conclusion. "Trust but verify." "Be generous." "Always make new mistakes." Equally applicable in real life and in cyberspace, the basic tenets of Esther Dyson's design for living in a digital society enliven and illuminate Release...