Word: institutionalize
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This is the message of a new $10 million permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington. Titled "Information Age: People, Information & Technology," the show brings together 700 objects and artifacts, ranging from Morse's telegraph to an early Apple computer. Through re-created...
Women's World Banking, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in April, is unlike any other financial institution. The group, which has its headquarters in New York City and 47 affiliate chapters on six continents, arranges for women who have no collateral to receive commercial loans that typically run from $150...
It has been all uphill ever since. In 1986 another MacCready creation, perhaps his most remarkable, swooped high over Death Valley while being photographed for the Smithsonian Institution's IMAX film On the Wing. It was an awesomely realistic, radio-controlled, computer-brained, wing-flapping replica of the largest creature...
The Gossamer Condor now hangs in a permanent spot next to the Wright brothers' first airplane at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum, where the Solar Challenger and the pterodactyl have been displayed. The Smithsonian has also acquired the Gossamer Albatross and the Sunraycer.
Combining studies with horsemanship was the idea of Sherman Thacher, a Yale law graduate who accompanied his ailing brother West and started the school in 1889. "There's something about the outside of a horse," he maintained, "that's good for the inside of a boy." Though it began as...