Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announced, "I'll decide who the running backs are in this game!" Says writer-producer Larry Schiller, who co-wrote Simpson's most recent book, I Want to Tell You: "The Shipp thing brought a sense of immediacy to the trial for O.J. The trial was like the Gaud? mosaic in Barcelona. That was the day O.J. truly understood that any little stone out of place could cause him to spend the rest of his life in jail." Douglas, though he remained crucial to the defense organization, never again cross-examined a major witness. And Simpson became more and more...
...best thing Netscape has going for it is its techies, most notably Andreessen, who, as a 22-year-old undergraduate at the University of Illinois, conceived the first graphical Web browser, Mosaic, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the fall of 1992. That bit of software transformed the drab, black-and-white, hard-to-get-around-in world of the Internet into a colorful place and stimulated an explosion in new kinds of content, from Web-based magazines to online casinos. Mosaic, which is licensed by the university to customers, was also given away and gained an estimated...
...afraid. "He said," Powell relates proudly, "'I am not afraid. And the reason I'm not afraid is that I'm with my family.' He looked over his shoulder at the other youngsters in his unit. They were white and black and yellow and every color of the American mosaic. 'That's my family. We take care of one another...
...several books and in countless luncheon conversations at his institute, was to reflect on the large questions of human evolution and people's roles as "co-authors" with nature in their destiny--such as, for instance, his own. "I could have studied the immunological properties of, say, the tobacco mosaic virus,'' he once reflected, "published my findings, and they would have been of some interest. But the fact that I chose to work on the polio virus, which brought control of a dreaded disease, made all the difference.'' All the difference for him. And for hundreds of thousands of others...
...great (if frightening) adventure; not until much later did I come to understand the full dimensions of the horror created by nearly six years of war. My family's experience pales into insignificance in the grim sweep of events, but it was one of millions of similar stories-a mosaic of suffering and hardship on all sides of the conflict. We were fortunate. We survived...