Word: modernization
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...Fifty years later, Plante's credited more for his good sense than lack of spine. The last professional goaltender not to wear a mask left the ice in 1974, and modern players can't imagine life without one. "I don't know if I would have played goal [without it], let's put it that way," famed New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur told NHL.com...
...Modern masks have come a long way from Plante's first design. In the 1970s, goalies started to replace the eyeholes with steel cages, improving a goalie's ability to see the puck (a major criticism of Plante's original design) and extending the fiberglass to protect the top of the head and neck. Today's goalie sports a mask that includes protection for the throat and is fashioned often from carbon fiber or Kevlar for added protection against flying pucks. The design has even crossed sports: in the past decade many baseball catchers have begun sporting hockey-style masks...
...described these groups as “the informal coalition who have elected most every mayor in the modern...
Imagine my surprise when I found that Boston, although beautiful and sophisticated in a historical, stately way, was a far cry from my image of modern sophistication. I had fallen into the trap of viewing even my own home as an “other,” the land of Republicans—the land of George W. Bush, with his comical attachment to his ranch and his linguistic gaffes. Like others, I may have been influenced by the numerous studies and newspaper articles trying to convince me that once I left the red-state border, I would...
Walking into the sun-bleached heart of Matera is like getting a direct line into southern Italy's past. Without any warning, the city's modern apartment buildings and piazzas give way to the Sassi (or the Stones), a dramatic enclave of Paleolithic cave dwellings and medieval houses dug into the rock. They were inhabited until the 1950s - when the government evacuated the last impoverished tenants who still shared cramped, unventilated quarters with farm animals - and the Sassi's labyrinthine staircases and alleys fell into decline. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...