Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there were only more contact between departments, there could also be significant fusion of ideas. Anthropology gives a meaningful critique of neo-classical economics and its limitations, while economic approaches can be used to model such gendered topics as marriage, divorce and fertility...
...dropped by his office in Dec. 1995 because he had been awarded a lifetime medal for his contributions to genetics as a result of his research on how DNA chains replicate. Those of you who have taken genetics or biology courses may have heard of the Meselson-Stahl model of DNA recombination, now a fixture in genetics textbooks...
...take Tiepolo on his own terms. He wanted, he said, to "please noble, rich people." So did every artist in Europe until the late 19th century. He was working in a tradition and adding to it. His borrowings from the past were inspired, not passive or academic. His great model was Veronese--indeed, his contemporaries called him "Veronese reborn"--and other artists influenced him too. He was acutely style-conscious, and as alert as a magpie. But the effect of his work ran on into the future...
...Great, which so pleased Alexander that when it was finished, he kept the painting and gave Campaspe herself to the artist. In the painting Tiepolo is Apelles, at the easel; the woman posing as Campaspe is Tiepolo's wife, Cecilia Guardi; Alexander is just an extra, a studio model. Apelles looks at her, his black servant looks at him, Alexander studies them both, and a little dog glares out at us: a circle of self-referential glances in lighthearted parody of the Antique...
Despite the fact that I wish his prominence could be dismissed as an excellent product prediction, I think Elmo has really become a role model for the millennium. He is properly a symbol of wonder for the end of the 20th century, a figure of endless wonder at a world that unfolds before him. Perhaps Elmo, always energetic about exploring the unknown, is the proper role model for us as we face the complex problems like social security and Medicare that face our country and the complicated advances like the Internet that hint at the future. Perhaps Elmo...