Word: mainstreaming
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...same time, people from the subcontinent have tended to aim more than other first-generation arrivals for mainstream jobs, either in the professions or in corporations. Some of that is a hangover from British colonial experience, where a job in the civil service was the ultimate badge of accomplishment and security--a sentiment still strong on the subcontinent. More positively, Indian immigrants say they fit into corporate America because they already speak English...
Crazy though it sounds, the idea of nanotechnology is very much in the scientific mainstream, with research labs all over the world trying to make it work. Last January President Clinton even declared a National Nanotechnology Initiative, promising $500 million for the effort...
...suspect that mainstream medicine and the military will both find reasons for attempting such a thing, at least in the short run, and that medicine's reasons may at least serve to counter some disability, acquired or inherited. If I were to lose my eyes, I would quite eagerly submit to some sort of surgery that promised a video link to the optic nerves. (And once there, why not insist on full-channel cable and a Web browser?) The military's reasons for chip insertion would probably have something to do with what I suspect is the increasingly archaic...
...Catholicism (including infamously ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992), she decided last year to be ordained as a priest by controversial Irish clergyman Bishop Michael Cox, the leader of a tiny religious sect. However, O'Connor hasn't quite joined mainstream Catholicism. Cox has come under fire in the past for reportedly offering confession over the telephone. And according to Des Cryan, assistant director of the Catholic Press and Information Office in Dublin, Cox's "holy orders are not recognized by the Catholic Church in Ireland." Besides which, Cryan adds...
Chomsky is also a frequent proponent of liberal political causes. He was an opponent of America's military involvement in Vietnam and Central American, among other places. He has also criticized the nation's mainstream news media for what he sees as its acceptance of government's and business' perspective...