Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Netscape built a fortune, at least in market value, by taking the roughedged Mosaic Web browser designed by the University of Illinois and crafting the Navigator browser. By 1995, almost everyone on the Web had a Netscape product on their computer...
...Baghdad's al-Rasheed Hotel, meanwhile, staff members were busy polishing the marble entrance where guests walk over a mosaic of the American President who bombed the city in 1991. The inscription: BUSH IS CRIMINAL. Inside was a more traditional welcome, with the same editorial message. Waiters served cups of coffee in a Bedouin tent next to a sign that read DOWN DOWN AMERICA. USA COUNTRY OF TERRORISM...
...subjects from urban growth to street art and vandalism. Other institutes apply themselves to arts education and to creating a vast database of humanities texts and art images, whose L.A. Culture Net Website at present reaches 14 million people who speak 90 different languages, cross-linking the city's mosaic of cultural organizations online...
Indeed, the whole school seems a wonderful mosaic of activities and classes and inquiries. In the library, the Tech Scouts, a group of computer-savvy students, show off their Website and online magazine. Up in the Girls Inc. room, students replay a "feminized" skit, based on Snow White and Cinderella, that they performed at a conference. In Brent Duckor's "Democracy, State and Society" class, Senior Institute students openly and persuasively challenge his assertion that they are being cynical. ("You win," he says. "You're not at all cynical...
...counsel is self-evident: Beware of strange men offering unwanted favors or fake solidarity. Learn to say, "I said NO!" But a four-part test for assessing the possibility of violence is less obvious and more useful. De Becker, a compulsive systemizer who has sold the Supreme Court his MOSAIC-2 computer program for risk assessment, offers 17 signs that a worker may become violent, and 30 predictors for murder within a marriage. He urges battered wives to flee but argues eloquently against the knee-jerk use of temporary restraining orders, which, he notes acerbically, "work best on the person...