Word: microcosm
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...cause of biodiversity--of maintaining endangered plants and preserving the wilderness--that drives all he has done with the Missouri Garden for nearly 30 years. Rather than being merely a place where pretty flowers are on show (though it is that as well), the garden is a microcosm of the wide green world. It is not a zoo for plant life. The last thing Raven wants is to create a repository for the vegetation that has been destroyed outside the garden...
...Crimson has lost six of its last nine games and had its 25-game Ivy win streak halted last Sunday in a 1-0 loss at Princeton. That defeat was a microcosm of Harvard's troubles of late--offensive inconsistency and an inability to produce runs...
...design, this change would entail some discomfort for the Gold Coasters. But this new system of democracy was not a reality. To join a House, the master would interview an undergraduate to see if his attitude was an acceptable addition to the microcosm within the Harvard community. Soon the Houses gained reputations of their...
Part of the answer lies in the makeup and background of Starr's handpicked team. Though Starr prides himself on having created a "microcosm" of the Justice Department, "but perhaps more elaborately fine tuned," true legal diversity eluded him. He had tough prosecutors and brilliant litigators recruited from around the country, but his Lewinsky team had few lawyers with strong criminal-defense backgrounds to provide balance, help plot the next move or weigh in on the treatment of witnesses. "Government lawyers have never had to sit in a room with somebody who is completely innocent," says a former Starr assistant...
...college-preparatory school in Los Angeles. Joined by Denise's husband John, Newton and Wood launched plans for an after-school program, to be based at the Kennett Middle School, whose population of 540 students (18% Hispanic, 7% African American, 2% Asian and remainder white) was a microcosm of the community itself...