Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most Japanese are true, and the cult is responsible for the subway atrocity, it would embody something much more sinister than even the Branch Davidian group led by David Koresh, who ultimately posed his most deadly danger to his own followers. The subway poisoning seems to represent an aggressive, outward-reaching insanity, as if Koresh had somehow become melded with the Tylenol killer. It suggests a new type of evil, a terrorism whose demands are so personal and obscure that no one can understand them, let alone satisfy them. Or put another way, garden-variety madness had got access...
...says that teaching writing in a university promotes the mistaken idea that education requires a turning inward into one's self, rather than outward towards the world." Creative writing classes, he claims, take away valuable classroom time reading the writing of great minds such as Milton and Joyce. I agree that turning outward towards the world, learning the ideas bestowed unto us by the Great Minds, is of utmost important. But turning outward does not mean the repression of turning inward to oneself...
This is a game whose outward appearance is striking throughout. With a play options screen that includes buttons shaped like guitar picks, users will be constantly reminded that they are not just playing a normal game--they are playing with...
...space and time, going by the name cosmic strings and cosmic textures. And lately theorists have revived an old idea known as hot dark matter, and an even older one called the cosmological constant. The latter is a kind of cosmic antigravity that gives the expanding universe an extra outward push; it was first conceived by Albert Einstein himself, who then rejected it as "the greatest blunder of my life." Each of these ideas is still floating around, championed by its own corps of diehards...
Cosmologists can now say with some confidence that the universe started out in a very hot and very dense state somewhere between 8 billion and 25 billion years ago, and that it has been expanding outward ever since-the Big Bang in a nutshell. They believe galaxies are strewn around the cosmos not randomly but according to a pattern that includes some patches with lots of galaxies and others with very few. They believe the universe is pervaded by mysterious dark matter, whose gravity has dominated cosmic history from the start...