Word: mosaicism
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Both undergraduate and graduate students then read from religious texts and the choral fellows of the University Choir performed “Canticle: Mosaic in Remembrance and Hope,” a piece written by Carson P. Cooman...
...tried to render the texts in a coherent fashion to make a mosaic that brought them all together,” Cooman said...
Americans will pause on Sept. 11 to commemorate the sober occasion in many ways. Around the world, too, the date will be remembered. In Allentown, Pa., William Allen High School students will dedicate a 35-ft. mosaic depicting symbols of the events. Volunteers in San Francisco will unfurl artist Pop Zhao's 5-mile-long banner comprising 3,000 American flags and string it along the city's coastline. In Berlin German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder will attend an ecumenical service held in the Berlin Dom. Citizens of Anchorage will be able to make free long-distance phone calls to loved...
...somehow fragile. You see volcanoes spewing smoke, hurricanes roiling the oceans and even fine tendrils of Saharan dust reaching across the Atlantic. You also see the big, gray smudges of fields, paddies and pastures, and at night you marvel at the lights, like brilliant diamonds, that reveal a mosaic of cities, roads and coastlines--impressive signs of the hand of humanity. Scientists tell us that our hand is heavy, that we are wiping out other species at an unprecedented rate and probably transforming our climate. Will the immense power of global systems withstand the impact of humanity...
...beat, covering national security, the intelligence community and terrorism. For the past 10 months, I have been ringing up a lot of old contacts whom I hadn't talked to in several years to piece together this cover story. Reporting on intelligence and terrorism is like assembling a complex mosaic. No one source knows the whole story. Each person you talk to usually has a small piece of it that you have to put together painstakingly with other pieces to get the complete picture. I also know from past experience that in covering terrorism, many of the fantastic stories...