Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, a tsunami inhales. The water that once caressed the shore is sucked away; fish flop gasping in unexpected air; harbor boats are dashed to splinters on the sudden sand. For five minutes or perhaps 30, the sea is empty as the great wave rolls in. Out in the deep it was no more than a foot high, swift and imperceptible; now, forced into standing straight by the ascending slope of the ocean floor, it is 20 feet. Or a hundred. And it will pound down on places the gentle tides have never touched...
Whatever the motivations, many of the new wave of professional students are taking on subjects, mostly in information technology and business management, that didn't even exist two or three years ago. The innovative topics include Internet marketing, electronic-commerce marketing, multimedia and design, computer-network management, global-marketplace strategies, client service and retention, and managing a business in the face of new competitors. "Some of the courses we offer are so specific and narrowly focused that they would not really be applicable toward a degree," says Richard Vigilante, director of the Information Technologies Institute, part of New York University...
Over the five years since his death, Stephen, the boy--Stephen, offering hope--has been forgotten by the masses. His image--a marketable picture of a smiling boy wearing a M*A*S*H shirt and giving his photographers a wave--lives on, reproduced on t-shirts, in the British tabloids, on television and on propaganda posters. It is, however, but the ghost of person--a voodoo doll that, when pricked, creates an automatic yelp from hundreds of protesters...
...month by 75 research teams microfilming records all over the world. In 2000, visitors to Ellis Island will have computer access to all passenger lists of ships bringing immigrants to New York Harbor from 1890 through 1924. State and local archives are expanding and collecting information about the latest wave of immigrants. The Denver Public Library takes pride in its wealth of Hispanic genealogical material, and, says director James Jeffrey, "because of our Western History Collection, we have a lot of information about Asians who migrated to Hawaii and then to the mainland. But we are searching for other sources...
...streaked home to Washington last week, Air Force One cast a long, lonely shadow over Japan. Yet its presidential passengers managed nary a wave. In fact, Japan was about the only country that was not graced by an encouraging word from Bill Clinton or his top aides as they wrapped up their China extravaganza. Instead, while Beijing's mistakes are all but forgiven these days, Tokyo is regarded as the regional deadbeat. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who pronounced China "an island of stability" in Asia's economic crisis, reminded people in Malaysia, Thailand and South Korea that he was "deeply...