Word: mathews
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Long before television and the Internet, graphic battlefield photos by Mathew Brady's corps of war photographers made their way into homes through photo-album books. (In Timothy O'Sullivan's 1863 Gettysburg tableau A Harvest of Death, you can practically hear the flies buzz over the bloated corpses.) The U.S. censored war photos during World War I, a policy that continued into World War II. But in 1943, President Roosevelt reversed the ban, believing Americans, unaware of the war's high cost, were becoming complacent. Vietnam, a generation later, was the media's war. Television broadcasts and searing photographs...
...Olympic torch generates much political heat, do you think athletes should take positions on major world issues? E.D. Mathew MONROVIA, LIBERIA...
...know you as a pioneer from when I took your computer-science class in college. What milestones in virtual reality do you want those who follow in your footsteps to reach? -Mathew Morton, BostonVirtual reality thus far has focused on bizarre, interesting perceptual thrills. I'd like to see them move on and try to really tell interactive stories. How do you put the user in control? It's a nuanced problem that's going to take a lot of smart people working for a long, long time...
...flooded with rainwater and sewage sludge. Good roads, metro rail, airports and other facilities have been on the drawing board for years, but there's little evidence of it on the ground. The IT sector and outsourced jobs help a token few, while crime and inflation have only increased. Mathew Varghese, Bangalore, India...
...mistake, however, to stick too rigidly to these definitions. "At one time people thought that migraine was a disorder all its own and that tension-type headache was totally separate," says Dr. Ninan Mathew, director of the Houston Headache Clinic. "Now we realize that headaches are not that clear cut." Indeed, Mathew says, nearly any recurring headache that is debilitating enough to keep you away from work or the things you enjoy is probably a migraine...