Word: detailism
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...RATNESAR joined TIME in 1997 and wrote his first story for the magazine on new ways to teach students math. Since then, he has profiled U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, written our initial story on Monica Lewinsky and landed on a missile cruiser off the coast of Bahrain to detail the American military buildup against Iraq. This week Ratnesar returns to the classroom for our cover story on homework. "Reporting on education is always intriguing," he says, "because while we seem able to reach a loose consensus on other social issues, people can't agree on the most basic questions...
...Olympic museum; it was allegations that Nagano organizers had secured the services of agents who promised to deliver votes for huge fees. In 1994 a citizen's group in Japan filed a criminal complaint against Nagano's mayor and the prefecture's governor for allegedly destroying documents said to detail how $18 million in public and private funds were used in Nagano's bid. The case was thrown out, but last week a former Nagano committee official disclosed that a 90-volume financial record of the bid process had been destroyed in 1992 because it contained "secret information." And Nagano...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1) flunking out, 2) doing work or 3) working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
...process can be likened to mapping out a route from San Francisco to New York City by walking the entire distance and noting every hill and valley along the way. It's slow but precise. After eight years, some 7% of the human genome has been sequenced in encyclopedic detail...
...while the genome project has been methodically chronicling the details of human cells--including long stretches of DNA, amounting to some 97% of the total, that contain no genes at all--private companies have opted for a very different approach. Their maps are more like satellite photographs that take in the entire route but concentrate only on the highlights. "The thing people are highly interested in," says Randal Scott, president and chief scientific officer at Incyte Pharmaceuticals, based in Palo Alto, Calif., one of the players in the private-sector gene-mapping game, "is where all the cities...