Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theory has flaws, though. One is the idea that prehistoric people could have populated an entire continent in a mere 500 years, the span between the time of the presumed land migration and the time by which Clovis spearpoints had been deposited throughout North America. Even more problematic are signs of very early culture in South America. "Humans don't sprint through their environment," says Mercyhurst College archaeologist James Adovasio. "But that's what the Clovis guys would have us believe. There's no analogue for that in archaeological history...
Maki's masterwork, a municipal gymnasium complex in Fujisawa, Japan, finished in 1984, is a marvel of engineering and fabrication. Inside the main, 2,000-seat gym, a vaulting span of 262 ft. 6 in. seems to levitate the roof just off the walls, creating an intense ribbon of natural light instead of some ordinary bolts-and-concrete seam. Outside, the pair of connected buildings, both clad in perfect, curved, wafer-thin sheets of stainless steel, look like 21st century allusions to 16th century Japanese armor, at once futuristic and resonant with the past. "One of architecture's functions," Maki...
...students' long-term goal is to establish an interdisciplinary program in U.S.-Latino studies which would span the history, political science, anthropology-sociology and romance languages departments. Williams already has similar Afro-American and Asian-American programs...
...have a vested interest," notes journalist Cynthia Crossen, who is writing a book on how numbers are manipulated. The American Cancer Society has said 1 in 8 or 9 U.S. women will develop breast cancer, though the frightening statistic is based on women having an unrealistically long life-span. Environmental organizations tend to present the most alarming scenarios to pump up the threat of global warming. Hard-line politicians and gun lobbyists frequently cite figures creating the impression that the country is in the midst of an unprecedented crime wave, and yet homicides and other crimes seem to be declining...
...fifth work for Kronos, and it has much in common with his earlier pieces. Zorn's compositional method is to compile a huge set of musical ideas, each notated on a filing card and lasting a few seconds; cartoon soundtracks are his major influence. While Kronos's attention span is not yet as short as Zorn's, there has been a disturbing tendency in their recent programs toward more and shorter pieces, and toward music with an easily grasped selling point. It is saddening to see a group's rise in popularity so proportional to be gimmickiness of its repertoire...