Word: detailism
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...cranium was somewhat squashed, and blowing sand had eroded some of its detail, but it was nearly complete. And in a game where an entire jawbone is regarded as a rare treasure, the fossil was almost a miracle. Over the next seven months, the team found pieces of what it believes are at least five individuals of the same species, including two lower-jaw fragments and three isolated teeth. Without a telltale foot, leg or other skeletal feature, the team could not be positive that the animal walked upright, but its skull is similar in important ways to those...
...intelligence panel's Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, which released an unclassified summary of its report last week, found that the NSA is "unable to identify" how it spends the money it gets from Congress each year "to any level of detail." A number of its projects duplicate one another, the report said. And while the NSA had listened in on "large volumes of phone calls from the part of the world [where] al-Qaeda was located," says Representative Saxby Chambliss, who chairs the terrorism subcommittee, "the problem was, they didn't focus on al-Qaeda," so that those...
...I.R.A. bombing: "It was very clear as we were putting the city center back together that we needed to build the listed [legally protected] buildings of the future. We spent time learning what good design was about. We used architectural competitions a lot - and we paid attention to detail." Phil Griffin, a local architectural writer, says "Manchester is realizing more and more that it can dare to be different." The challenge for Manchester was to come up with a master plan that would integrate the impoverished north with the wealthier south, parts of the city that were split...
SEPT. 11 PORTRAITS David Halberstam's chronicle of a bereaved Manhattan firehouse that lost 12 men on Sept. 11 depicts in mournful detail the unique bonds that firefighters share...
...Minister Claudio Scajola, 54, who was pressured to resign after two newspaper reporters quoted him referring to Marco Biagi - a labor ministry adviser assassinated in March by the Red Brigades terrorist group - as a "pain in the ass." Scajola, under fire for not having provided Biagi with a security detail, suggested the victim had been interested only in extending his government consulting contract. Through a mixture of shrugs and subterfuge, the Berlusconi government usually manages to skate past these lapses in taste. But with Scajola's offensive comments, its luck ran out. "The government, as insurance companies would...