Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...According to Hawkins, the council's goal is to rewrite the computer voting program and to convert it to a Web-based model...
Patrick Naughton understood, and trusted, computers. The blond, classically handsome 34-year-old was a devoted techie from the moment in high school when he designed an application that mapped out his parents' restaurant. He was one of the early Web warriors, an engineer who helped develop the software language Java before eventually heading technology at Infoseek. He later caught the attention of Disney chief Michael Eisner, who tapped him to oversee the company's new Internet portal. So when Naughton logged on to a chat room called "dad&daughtersex" last March, he probably thought he was safe. After...
Last night, the Institute also launched a new Web site. The Lyman Common Room, a women's center in Agassiz House, has now been emptied of most of its decorations...
...unusually personal, The Big Test begins as a history of standardized testing and the SAT, but necessarily, it becomes a history of America's philosophy of education, exposing the direct and divisive conflict between our country's sacred values of opportunity and justice for all. A complex, interconnected web of personalities, Lemann's book follows the lives and accomplishments of a series of figures ranging from the early proponents of standardized testing to a few of the first women and minorities accepted into the educational elite on the basis of their performance on the exams...
...that can be preserved by attention running beyond narrow interest"--Purdy advocates for the envisioning of public life as three "interrelated ecologies." The ecological paradigm is important: Purdy's point is that the restoration of public life depends upon recognition of the codependence of every position in the ecological web. Thus Purdy conceives of understanding human interpersonal responsibility as "moral ecology," individual responsibility to the public sphere as "social ecology," and environmental responsibility as, well, "ecology." Not, perhaps, the neatest of aphoristic parallelisms in an American environmentalist tradition that has been marked by the brilliant aphoristic prose of its writers...