Word: dispersedness
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LOWELL, River West—The courtyards of Lowell are silent today after heavy fighting this afternoon, when a group of Winthropians became caught between two Dunster artillery emplacements at 1 p.m. By 5 p.m., every Winthropian was dead or dying, and the brigadier general commanding the Dunster forces ordered...
But Rodriguez and her school also encountered hair-raising setbacks. Though the Taliban had fled, fundamentalists threatened to destroy what they viewed as a school for scandal. Some of her students were beaten by their husbands. Water and electricity were elusive. Money dwindled. The Afghan government finally evicted the school...
The initial bouts of violence broke out Sunday night at the Bastille and Place de la Republique in Paris, just as thousands of Sarkozy supporters feted the victor at Place de la Concorde. Soon radicals in other French cities followed suit, resulting in what police tallied as, 730 cars torched...
Arriving at the Caribbean island of Nevis, ship's carpenters built a gallows to hang Smith for insubordination. He was spared by the group's commander, Captain Christopher Newport, a career privateer who had lost an arm pirating booty on the Spanish Main and reckoned the colonists would need every...
What might those things be? Take the case Benkler makes in his 2006 book, The Wealth of Networks (available, free, at www.benkler.org) for the economic benefits of "peer production" of software and other information products--from journalism to scientific research to videos of people mixing Mentos and Diet Coke. Peer...