Word: diagramed
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...were to draw a diagram of acculturation, with the mores of immigrant parents on one side and society's on the other, the classic model might show a steady drift over time, depicting a slow-burn Americanization, taking as long as two or three generations. The more recent Asian-American curve, however, looks almost like the path of a boomerang: early isolation, rapid immersion and assimilation and then a re-appreciation of ethnic roots...
...This article contains a complex diagram -- Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] Bowling has come a long way since Edward III of England banned the sport in 1366 because it was distracting his soldiers from archery practice. Bowling dates back at least to the Pharaohs, although for the first few thousand years, the game remained pretty much unchanged. You rolled a ball made of stone or wood or rubber at a bunch of pins and hoped for the best...
...Charles River flows eastward. The Venn diagram, temperature charts, and topological maps from 1636 are just too convincing as evidence...
...White House gave the royal treatment to Williams and his NBC crews, allowing such rare shots as the Air Force One stairs as seen from the spot where the President waves. The President could be seen before his speech next to a big diagram showing the event layout. And the President?s young trip director, Steven Atkiss, was shown pulling back the stage curtain as the President entered to cheers. Williams was given three separate interviews-in the Oval Office, on Air Force One and again in Philadelphia-with total time together, including non-camera time, of slightly over...
...babes, or triumphs of motherly multitasking. Rather, the focus stays on the darker side of child rearing and family difficulties, told in the blunt and funny style of the family big mouth. One page, titled "Anatomy of a New Mom" sums up the book's appeal: A mock medical diagram of a baggy-eyed woman nursing a "totally oblivious and blissed-out need machine," it points out all the identifying characteristics of new-mom-hood, like "needs a perm," "wonders 'why,'" "feeds infant but forgets to feed self," "total disconnection from sexuality," and other details not often mention in baby...