Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sounds visionary, that's because it is. The university is chartered by the Principality of New Utopia--a two-year-old city-state on three submerged seamounts in the Caribbean that currently has more than 500 citizens...
There are 180 full scholarships available--thanks to an endowment of $13 million footed by New Utopia. The money will be raised through the sale of bonds and a 15-percent duty on imports to the city-state. Tuition to the university is $500 per course, plus $25 to apply and $200 to enroll...
...there isn't much chance of that:construction on New Utopia is set to begin in afew days and Crews said the tropical paradisemight lure him once it opens on December...
...future were very easy to tap into in the '50s," he says. "There were so many challenges left unrealized because of the Depression and World War II--there was a lot left to dream about." The promise of the future then was one of hope, of a technological utopia. But the sometimes bad, mostly prosaic way in which many of those dreams eventually came true (space-travel perception: vacation on the moon; space-travel reality: a bunch of Russians stuck for months in a ratty old orbiter) may have dulled people's appetites for looking further forward. We like...
...tenor compels few to question his words asanything but gospel. And so, looking upon his fullcongregation on Sundays at Memorial Church, Gomesconcludes that "Godless Harvard" is not Godless atall. He illuminates a backlash to the scientificemphasis on quantification and demystification.Gomes says that the realization that "science hasnot produced a utopia" has buoyed a risingspiritual tide that "makes it easier to preach in1998 than...