Word: missionize
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...swamps or deserts off the true path. Would anyone ask if France had lost its way? If Japan had lost its way? And yet: Israel, although an ancient people, is a new country, unlike France or Japan. Moreover, Israel, like the U.S., is essentially an idea, a vision, a mission, a created entity. Like the U.S., Israel has claimed a certain exceptionalism, a special nature that derives in part from its essentially moral purposes. ''We don't want to be just a state,'' says Amos Oz, an Israeli
...earth there -- a rich debris of meanings and promises and desires. The accumulation of passion and memory, so much of it implicated with God, can make the land seem at times both wondrous and psychotic. There are certain parallels between Israel and America -- both nations born with a mission, both ingatherings of people from around the world. In a curious way, part of the genius of America has been a collective forgetfulness, a talent for somehow outdistancing problems in a headlong race toward something new. It is a form of heedlessness, perhaps, blithe and profligate, but also an exuberant forward...
...example, during a search and rescue mission for a nuclear disaster, where humans rescuers would be put in danger, hundreds of these MAVs could be sent into the area to search for survivors. With the ability to maneuver into small spaces within the debris, MAVs would be able to detect carbon dioxide gas and report the location of the survivors...
...Eventually we want the MAVs to be so inexpensive that they would be disposable. Even if most of them are destroyed in the search process, the mission would still be considered a success,” Wood says...
This is not to say, of course, that all courses offered to GSAS and College students should be the exclusive province of these closed communities. The mission of the Extension School—to provide higher education to a broad swath of the general public—is urgent and worthy enough to be shared by the entire University, at least through avenues that would not detract from the learning of other Harvard students. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, offers unlimited access to syllabi, handouts, and other non-sensitive course documents on its Web site. FAS should...