Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here on campus, going incognito is simpler and subtler. We differentiate ourselves with countless discreet badges of identity which, when tweaked ever so slightly, dramatically alter the outward signs of who we are. As fashion mavens have proclaimed since before time, it's all in the accessories...
This is merely to say that, while a diversity of backgrounds is incredibly important to any university newspaper claiming to represent the whole population, diversity is more than outward appearance. The Crimson would do well to note that a diversity of backgrounds does not automatically mean a diversity of thought. Rather, diversity should mean, especially for an editorial page, a diversity of thought on matters that affect all members of this institution. SUSAN D. GLAZER '98 April...
...Titan could indeed be the Walt Disney of the solar system," says TIME Science correspondent Jeffrey Kluger, "a cryogenic version of Earth waiting to be revived." And its time is coming. Six billion years from now, as the Sun expands outward in Elvis-like death throes and Earth and Mars have long been incinerated, Titan will enter its spring. Its surface temperature will creep above freezing, and life may indeed sprout -- giving the new organisms about 500 million years to evolve and achieve space travel before they, too, are engulfed in flames...
This, as I said, was almost four years ago, when, to all outward appearances, Microsoft was a sleeping giant that hadn't yet awakened to the Internet blooming all around it. So Zawinski and his compadres put in 120-hour weeks. They had no lives. They coded until the sun rose, then slept under their desks. And in October 1994 they launched their killer app, known initially--forgive the hubris--as Mozilla. It was a play on Godzilla, as in "Mozilla will rule...
...visitor in the streets feels no tangible fear or frenzy, no outward anxiety that attack is imminent. Baghdad's new poor are worrying as always about their daily bread. A lucky man might earn 4,000 dinars a month, the price of a kilo of meat. Families get by on soup and rice, for lunch and dinner. Women in the streets peddle rings and bracelets to help pay rent; children beg everywhere, offering a few pathetic sticks of incense or just a sad look on their haggard faces. Middle-class families long ago sold off their television sets, rugs...