Word: remapping
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...this certainty that lends urgency to the efforts by Zoback and her colleagues to remap the San Andreas and its subsidiary faults, to amass new clues to its murky prehistory and to re-create in cyberspace the primordial violence of the 1906 quake. In addition to being the centennial of the last Big One, April 18, 2006, marks the approximate midway point in the countdown to the next Big One--100 years of stress accumulation in one of the world's most earthquake-prone regions. The more scientists learn about the ways in which that stress may be released...
...films and those that gave us Gulf War II: Back to Iraq. Both, he says, are "blatant in their pursuit of dummifying the American public." He compares the Administration's Iraq ramp-up to a Hollywood preproduction meeting: "A good director tells you that you're going in to remap the Middle East. A bad director tells you you're going in for weapons that don't exist." And he is happy to keep speaking up--and listening. "I've had dialogue with Dennis Kucinich, with a lot of people in the military, in intelligence, in the FBI. Some...
Gilligan has set out to "remap" the traditional schemes of human development, and to reverse the traditional theories of development which place male-oriented reasoning on a higher level than female values. She is currently working on a theory that would combine a concern for both the self and for others and an emphasis on both justice and care at an ultimate stage of human development...
Gilligan has set out to "remap" the traditional scheme of human development, and to reverse the traditional theories of development which place male-oriented reasoning on a higher level than female values. She is currently working on a theory that would combine a concern for both the self and for others and an emphasis on both justice and care at an ultimate stage of human development...
...modern writer resist returning to the Greek myths to explore their endless, labyrinthine paths and to remap their ambiguous meanings into the maze of the twentieth century? The myths are so rich in tragedy, epic lives, passionate ideals, saturnalian revelry, and comic twists of fate that they beg for modernization. Claiming such undertakings to be bastardizations, staid classicists might curse the lack of inspiration, the sterility of these transformations. "Myths," said Camus, "are made for the imagination to breathe life into them." John Gardner's epic poem, Jason amd Medeia shows that the modern imagination, violently panting while it makes...