Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeshorim's goal is to ensure that the children born of Orthodox parents are safe from certain genetic diseases whose occurrence is disproportionately higher within that close-knit community. Launched ten years ago by Rabbi Josef Ekstein to test for Tay-Sachs Disease, Dor Yeshorim has expanded its scope to include three other genetic diseases. More than 8,000 people entered the program last year alone...
...situations are never static, as Dor Yeshorim's history shows. The program continues to expand its scope. As Samuel Lefkowitz, a consultant with the project, asserts in The New York Times, the organization aims to someday test for "anything possible...
Something in the Core Curriculum is fundamentally wrong--wrong, as in unjust. The latest debates about the Core have confined themselves to discussions of new areas and the overall scope of courses. But the crux of the problem lies deeper within Harvard's most onerous requirement. By discouraging students from exploring many departments outside their own fields, the Core exacerbates exactly the problem it was meant to remedy...
...David Hockney (Chronicle Books; $35). The English pop artist's aggressive, arresting and restless work has explored nearly every medium -- painting, photography and printmaking. Here he discusses his development, training and inspirations at relaxed length. A generous selection of milestone paintings and drawings illustrates the scope of his visual assault on the commercial symbolism of the middle class, and Hockney's private vision and public persona...
...result of this relentless passion is not perfect. What enterprise of this scope and intensity possibly could be? In concentrating on the scope of their suffering, the film has lost a certain particularity among the victims. It lacks highly individual characters who would embody and dramatize their suffering. Something of Schindler himself has also been lost in the transition to the screen. Keneally conceived him as a man who admired his own cleverness and may have derived the same sardonic pleasure from taking Jews away from the Nazis as he did from taking money away from them in exchange...