Word: lode
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Century, a distillation of the past 874,680 hours into 12, or rather six two-hour programs. They will air at 9 p.m. E.T. over the next two weeks, beginning this Monday and ending on Saturday, April 10. Narrated by Peter Jennings, The Century served as the mother lode from which the anchorman's well-received companion volume of the same name was mined. The book, written with Todd Brewster, is perched on the New York Times best-seller list, 11 slots behind The Greatest Generation, a historical tome by another network-news anchor, Tom Brokaw...
...world of corporate espionage, a company's host computer is the mother lode, which means that protecting it is vital. That's the goal of Extreme Hacking, one of a growing number of counterhacking courses that teach perfectly respectable people the how-tos of cracking their own networks so they can better protect them. "We're kind of wearing the white and black hats at the same time," says Eric Schultze, the Ernst & Young instructor who gets tingles from an exposed password file...
Little may remain of the gold that drew thousands of dreamers and schemers to the American Wild West, but there's a mother lode of adventure to be mined out there. Many of the old towns are alive and well, still surrounded by soaring forests and roaring rivers--and mapped for all posterity by the likes of John Muir, Mark Twain and other great 19th century writers...
...Hollywood, history has always been what it likes to call "underlying material," a lode of legend, conveniently located in the public domain, from which it can quarry inspirational tales of resistance to tyranny, redemption from injustice. From The Life of Emile Zola to Braveheart, audiences bedeviled by the ambiguities of modern life have derived moral instruction and emotional uplift from these transformations of the complex past into simple, glowing metaphorical guides to right behavior...
Officials at the National Institutes of Health were delighted that one of their own had struck the mother lode, and they rushed to patent Venter's genes. But across the NIH campus, James Watson, who had won a Nobel for his co-discovery of the structure of DNA and who was then running NIH's Human Genome Project, was outraged. This wasn't science, he insisted. "Virtually any monkey" could do that work, Watson fumed in the opening salvo of a battle that would rage for months--and which smolders to this day. To patent such abbreviated genetic material, said...