Word: inventing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Police" N.W.A. The song that not only helped invent gangsta rap, but also proved prophetic when the L.A. riots broke...
...sympathize with our students' enthusiasm for the societies and other extra-curricular activities to which they commit hours every week. We all share a common goal of trying to pack more into twenty-four hours than will ever fit until one of our alumni uses his Harvard training to invent a method of slowing the earth in its orbit. So where is the way out of this impasse...
...morning; as I got older, this ritual often involved lengthy consultations with friends, whose advice was weighed carefully and then generally dismissed. (We all had terrible taste back then, but I like to blame our sartorial ignorance on the trends of the day. Whose bright idea was it to invent asymmetrical haircuts, anyway...
...health or education or housing. "We really don't want to be mistaken for a foundation," Drayton says somewhat disdainfully. "Philanthropy has been dominated by governments and foundation bureaucracies that have not evolved quickly enough and don't adapt well to changing demands from the field. We need to invent new institutions...
...labor intensive to make. They are strongest if built from the sturdiest materials. Well, no, on all counts. Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has built homes, pavilions and churches, some of them permanent, using little more than cardboard tubes. "I was interested in weak materials," says Ban, 42. "Whenever we invent a new material or new structural system, a new architecture comes out of it." Ironically, Ban may be closer to the old modernist ideals than many who build today in glass and steel. He wants beauty to be attainable by the masses, even the poorest...