Word: mosaicism
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...clear that several hundred, and perhaps even several thousand languages, will vanish forever in the next century. To the extent that these languages express unique cultures, and form part of the mosaic of human intellectual activity, we must do everything we can to document them--and hopefully even save some of them--before it's too late...
...country singer Jane Goldman. It is the largest public art installation in New England and aims to beautify the airport while evoking "Boston." The project, set in the floor of the walkway between two moving sidewalks, depicts the ocean and marine animals in terrazzo, a hybridof concrete and mosaic. It moves from Terminal A to E, starting at each end with dark tones representing deep water, and grows more shallow, becoming a beach at the parking garage...
...think he would have at least got rich; he had plenty of opportunities. But at every juncture, Berners-Lee chose the nonprofit road, both for himself and his creation. Marc Andreessen, who helped write the first popular Web browser, Mosaic--which, unlike the master's browser, put images and text in the same place, like pages in a magazine--went on to co-found Netscape and become one of the Web's first millionaires. Berners-Lee, by contrast, headed off in 1994 to an administrative and academic life at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From a sparse office at M.I.T...
Emer Martin's second book is a mesmerizing mosaic of places, characters and feeling. Reading almost as a guide book to the modern scattered human soul, More Bread or I'll Appear is both beautiful and terrible. Though she has been compared to Henry Miller and Irvine Welsh, to me Emer Martin sings completely unique modern saga...
...click of a mouse. Within four months 75% of all Net users were peering at the Web through the window of the Netscape browser. Netscape's co-founder Marc Andreessen and his band of brainy programmers grabbed the world's fastest-growing market despite an entrenched competitor: NSCA Mosaic, the breakthrough browser Andreessen himself had helped write as a student at the University of Illinois...