Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sonic Jigsaw," as the name might suggest, is just the type of adventurous project the OFA loves to fund; it received one of the largest grants, $500. Coordinated by the student group EMBRYO (Experimental Music BRing Your Own)," Sonic Jigsaw" is an interactive exhibit in which participants will become "noise artists," as they play with various experimental disguised sounds. People will be able to select sections of sound and modulate those sounds, while they move the noise from chaos to one individual harmony...
...Team" which is headed by a member of the Board. The team is made up of highly specialized experts in propulsion (engine), air frame (fuselage), hydraulics, electronics and computer technology," says Hannifin. These experts and metallurgists, as they salvage pieces of the plane, will build a gigantic metal jigsaw puzzle in a effort to piece together the 747 airliner. They will study such factors as the direction in which particular pieces of the wreckage were bent, and the relative heat damage to different parts of the airliner, which provide vital clues to the precise source and direction of the explosion...
...inspectors. They crunched and recrunched scraps of data through a massive parallel-processing computer borrowed from the Pentagon, sifting through school lists, driver's-license registries, lists of people who had checked certain books out of libraries in California and the Middle West. "It was just an incredibly complicated jigsaw puzzle," says a former FBI agent who worked on the case...
...unscrupulous can then reassemble as they see fit. Although it is impossible to prove any of the Gospels false, so little of them can be historically proved to be true, Johnson suggests, that by emphasizing that fact, scholars like Crossan and Funk have put themselves in the position of "jigsaw-puzzle solvers who are presented with 27 pieces of a thousand-piece puzzle and find that only six or seven of the pieces even fit together." A reasonable person, he maintains, would "put those pieces together, make some guess about what that part of the puzzle might be about...
...this false sense of knowledge, based not on experience but on easy answers and ready-made explanations offered by escapist non-fiction, that can truly be damaging. Logically, it would seem that problems would be better solved looking at each relationship rather than trying to fit our jigsaw pieces into someone else's puzzle...