Word: mosaic
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Other times, the groups serve as specialized magazine publishers. Diaspora deals with issues of concern to Black students. Mosaic is a magazine about Jewish issues. Korean-Americans founded Yisei, "the Korean cultural and literary magazine at Harvard," and Chinese-Americans have a special forum in East Wind. Do minority students read each others' magazines? And do white students read minority magazines...
SOCIETY: Millions of immigrants build an ethnic mosaic whose pieces don't quite fit together...
This work, which Coles describes as his "intellectual wanderings," is a vast, multifaceted mosaic--a panorama embracing the realms of clinical research, social science fieldwork, writing and teaching...
Capitalism has hit home in Czechoslovakia. In fact, it has hit the President's house. VACLAV HAVEL's Prague neighbors were startled to see an end wall of his apartment house blossom overnight into a colorful mosaic of Procter & Gamble billboards. Havel, who hopes to use the billboard fees to restore the building's crumbling facade, has shrewdly insisted on veto power over the content of the ads. P&G happily obliged with a politically correct mix of environmental messages that stress the company's commitment to cleanliness. Got any wall space in Kennebunkport, President Bush...
Much of the difference between black and white life-spans results from poverty and discrimination. But the problem is a maddening mosaic involving many other factors as well. New evidence suggests that part of the reason blacks suffer more from high blood pressure, for example, may lie in genetics. Many analysts have also cited lack of preventive care and cultural differences -- such as a fattier diet and a higher rate of smoking among blacks. None of these factors, however, can be completely separated from the others...