Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vice presidential debates, independent James B. Stockdale noted that he had presided over a "civilization of men" which he called a "microcosm of life." Stockdale seems to have forgotten a rather crucial segment of the population: women...
...dissertation deals with them in microcosm by focusing on Irish Catholic immigrants to the United States before the Civil War, he says...
Eight Biosphereans in color-coordinated jumpsuits plan to spend two years in an enclosed 1.3-hectare (3.15-acre) microcosm of earth. But since real scientists do not understand even simple ecosystems yet, the idea that anyone can accurately simulate an entire world is just short of ridiculous...
This is probably not on the scale of Buster Douglas upsetting Mike Tyson. But in the microcosm in which followers of Harvard basketball live, it is earth-shattering...
...told, Gup spent a month in Logan County, W. Va., a microcosm for hundreds of company towns built around ailing industries. "It's a subtle story," says senior editor Stephen Koepp. "It's about how these people became dependent on, almost addicted to, a way of life." It's also a story about cheating and corruption, practices that Gup experienced firsthand. One day a mine tour he had been promised was abruptly canceled. Reason given: a federal agent was inspecting the facilities, although there was no inspector there. Several witnesses told Gup the real reason was that safety equipment hastily...