Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Columbus made good on his word to send back many slaves, most of the Arawaks perished on the transatlantic journey or soon after their arrival in Spain. So he threw his energy into collecting gold. In Haiti, he ordered that all Indians over age 14 surrender a quota of gold every three months. The quota was unattainable--gold did not exist in the quantities that Columbus imagined. Nevertheless, Indians who did not meet the quota had their hands cut off and bled to death...
What do first-years love, sophomores struggle with, juniors dread and seniors laugh at? The Grille, yes, but I was actually referring to sections. Sections are something we can all relate to--they are an unavoidable aspect of academic life at Harvard. In our four-year journey here, our relationship with sections is in constant flux and development. If Verdi had been at Harvard he would have said, "La sections et mobile" ("how fickle are sections"). Sections take us on a real emotional roller coaster. Each year marks the beginning of a new stage in this stormy romance...
...journey of life comes with a clear itinerary, and according to the schedule, our 20s and early 30s should be devoted to procreation. By the time we reach 35 or so, our reproductive mission ought to be complete, and nature will pretty much have lost interest in us. More and more, however, early middle-agers have spent their pre-35 years building careers and waited until 40 looms and the reproductive last call sounds before finally beginning the business of making babies...
...There goes the set," I said, realizing that my attempting to find a television repairman would be the equivalent of Stanley attempting to find Livingstone, except that Stanley didn't get overcharged at the end of the journey. Then we saw a ray of hope. Maybe it was the cable. If we were lucky, all of our neighbors' television sets were also receiving electroshock therapy. The cable people, who value our monthly subscription checks, would send out a repairman right away...
...main culprits are the amplifiers that sit along cable lines, keeping signals strong and clear during their downstream journey. Not only do these amps not work when messages are funneled upstream, they actually degrade signals already under assault from radio interference. "There's far more noise in the coaxial system than any of us expected to see," says a hardware executive who has been close to the cable-modem industry since its inception. "It's really difficult to drive the signals out over these lines. Every trial to date has run into that as a significant problem...