Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Science A-30, "The Atmosphere," has satellite pictures of recent storm activity, and Science B-44, "Vision and the Brain," has links to Web pages with information on vision and x-rays of the brain...
Most films, as they ravel their stories, narrow their focus to two or three central characters. The English Patient, though, expands its field of vision to embrace the impromptu communities around Almasy--notably Hana and her Sikh lover Kip (Naveen Andrews). They re-enact, with less melodrama, the arc of Almasy and Katharine's desperate affair. Almasy wants his love to flee in a plane; Kip sends Hana soaring on pulleys into the clerestory of the monastery chapel. Up there with the heavenly murals: Kip knows that's where this pensive angel belongs...
...economies under the weight of a gajillion interconnected, deregulated fiber-optic strands; the rise of the global village; the triumph of one-to-many communication; the demise of the clueless press. So what if he's such a tightwad that he makes his employees buy their own pens? His vision of the future inspires a dedicated young staff to work unbelievably hard; one of them brought a bunk bed into the office and lived there for months...
...going to bring a superb knowledge of science and education to the position, as well as a vision of how a medical school should run in...a challenging time for academic medicine," said Anne Young, chief of neurology service...
...former Penn professor is the author of a number of provocative novels, most notably Brothers and Keepers, Philadelphia Fire and The Cattle Killing, all of which probe the depths of the imagination, creating a fantasy world where the past is recreated and shaped according to the author's unique vision. The stories selected by Wideman also tend to rely on the element of the fantastic and many look to the past, recreating historical narratives...