Word: epochal
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...This epoch of self-assertion through the arts, especially architecture, flourished until the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Indeed, it continued thereafter, for the New Deal conceived of the vast public work as an expression of shared potential, communal will and can-do. Its epitome, though, was the skyscraper, that uniquely American form. As a symbol of Promethean energy, the skyscraper has never been surpassed. It is the architecture of smooth-flowing congestion, an American ideal, and it took ever more glorious forms in such designs as the Empire State Building and the great, self-sufficient urban complex of Rockefeller...
...sufficient force. The rate at which such explosions would have to occur, however, is mind-boggling: around one a century, Purcell estimates. Since supernovas have never been observed to go off at that rate in our galaxy, this theory suggests that the antimatter fountain originated in a more violent epoch in the distant past...
Sure, there are geeks like Bill Gates, who loves to respond to several hundred of the E-mails sent him daily, but Gibbs of Epoch Networks is less happy dipping into his system until 1 in the morning. "I have been at the company two months and received 6,500 E-mails," he sighs...
University of Chicago pediatric neurologist Dr. Peter Huttenlocher has chronicled this extraordinary epoch in brain development by autopsying the brains of infants and young children who have died unexpectedly. The number of synapses in one layer of the visual cortex, Huttenlocher reports, rises from around 2,500 per neuron at birth to as many as 18,000 about six months later. Other regions of the cortex score similarly spectacular increases but on slightly different schedules. And while these microscopic connections between nerve fibers continue to form throughout life, they reach their highest average densities (15,000 synapses per neuron...
...desire to share the resulting economies of scale and cut the cost of funerals but rather to boost prices still higher. The death-care companies seek to ready themselves for what stock-market analyst Steve Saltzman of the Chicago Corp. calls the "golden era" of death, the fast-approaching epoch when baby boomers begin dropping like flies. The Loewen Group is the second largest of the "consolidators," and over the past few years, the company has gained a reputation as one of the most aggressive. It bought its first U.S. funeral home in 1987 but as of mid-September owned...