Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, teacher Fulton, who designed the class two years ago, exhorts her students to conquer the Net before they do anything else. They become comfortable using BBSs (bulletin-board systems), IRC (Internet Relay Chat), MUDs (multiple-user dungeons), Usenet newsgroups and such World Wide Web browsers as Mosaic and Gopher. But Fulton also engages them in discussions of related social and political issues such as privacy, universal access and the role of governmental regulation...
...enforcement agencies, in turn, are using the Net to help solve crimes. The FBI, for example, has begun putting requests for information about lawbreakers on its Mosaic home page, the electronic equivalent of a WANTED poster. Late last year the agency posted details of the so-called Unabomber case, a series of 14 unsolved bombing incidents in the U.S. dating back to 1978 -- and offered a $1 million reward...
Moreover, the effectiveness of the opera'srecurring motives is dulled. The whole score isassembled form a few thematic cells, such as themockplaintive descending second that suggests thefeigned lamentation of the Donati. The pianotranscription removes perhaps the most importantelements in this mosaic: Puccini's richorchestration...
Taking his visitors on a slow walking tour of Havana's labyrinthine Palacio de la Revolucion, Castro gestures toward an enormous mosaic of birds, animals and flowers that dominates the reception hall and quietly begins a story. The artist, he explains, cast the ceramic tiles at the same time the architect was completing the building's interior. Through some misunderstanding between the two men, the ceiling was built too low. When it came time to install the intricately etched tiles, the top two rows did not fit. The artist never forgave the architect whose miscalculations robbed his mosaic...
...find your way around the Internet if you don't have a clue? The creators of NCSA Mosaic at the University of Illinois provided the map -- and the compass -- for anyone who can point and click a mouse. The Mosaic team then went private. Its latest, improved version, called Netscape, has quickly become the navigator of choice for dedicated Net surfers. Speedier and more responsive (users love the big red Stop button), it can also be used to order goods from many budding online shopping centers...