Word: users
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
URBAN DEVELOPMENT. The earthquake not only failed to shake but even reinforced Los Angeles' long-standing "golden towers" vision: that of an urban core of commercial skyscrapers surrounded by a redeveloped user-friendly downtown district. The so-called Downtown Strategic Plan has been under way for a dozen years at a cost so far of $7.5 billion. Its new buildings, dominated by the 73-story First Interstate Bank Tower, have been constructed with strong earthquakes in mind. Fire officials last week privately informed civilian volunteers that if the Big One hit near downtown, the new buildings ought to remain standing...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology is a welcoming museum. The entrance features a bright orange temporary exhibit enthusiastically titled, "Everybody Likes Trilobites--The Exhibit." It's a user-friendly exhibit that informs visitors, "Time treated the trilobites pretty well," and draws them further into the museum with a flourish: "This way to more fossil in vertebrates...
There is more to a computer than its metaphor, of course. Charles Piller, author of The Fail-Safe Society, argues that it was the PC itself, not the so- called user interface, that drove the computer revolution. "The automobile altered society in fundamental ways," says Piller. "The automatic transmission did not." But it is not always clear where metaphor ends and reality begins. Linguists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest in Metaphors We Live By that when people accept a metaphor like "argument is war," with such attendant expressions as "attack a position" and "indefensible," it actually changes how they...
...said he loved her but had a nonnegotiable demand: she must get clean. Holland allows herself a small smile. "He'd led a sheltered life," she says. Nonetheless, that November, four months pregnant, she presented herself at D.C. General. "I told them I was a heroin and cocaine user, and sick and tired of getting high," she says. The hospital enrolled her in the maternal-health project...
...Internet newsgroup address for news aboutthe quake is alt.current-events.la-quake,according to a Science Center user assistant