Word: projects
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...died in exactly the way guerrillas are not supposed to: peacefully in his sleep. By doing so, he cheated both his pursuers in Cambodia and his would-be international tribunal. It was perfect timing: "We could almost have arrested him tomorrow," said Youk Chhang of the Yale University project that was gathering evidence against the Khmer Rouge killer...
Pierson also plans to use award funds to support a research project, "Temporal Professes in Politics" that he hopes to publish. The project is focused on "building bridges between political science and history," Pierson said...
...think we've anticipated the impact that the efforts going on in the Human Genome Project will have on biomedical science, and we have built tools...to come to bear with dealing with this enormous amount of information," Tepper says...
University Internet connections are about to get speedier. Today three high-tech firms said they were donating networking hardware and use of a zippy fiber-optic network linking 122 research universities through the Clinton administration's Next Generation Internet project. Together Qwest Communications International, Cisco Systems, and Northern Telecom will provide services and products worth an estimated $500 million over three years. Separately, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hand $50 million to 27 Internet-related research projects...
What, then, is greatness? In what does it reside? If a man's project fails, or survives only in irredeemably tarnished form, can the force of his example still merit the extreme accolade? For Jawaharlal Nehru, the defining image of Gandhi was "as I saw him marching, staff in hand, to Dandi on the Salt March in 1930. Here was the pilgrim on his quest of Truth, quiet, peaceful, determined and fearless, who would continue that quest and pilgrimage, regardless of consequences." Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi later said, "More than his words, his life was his message." These days...