Word: networked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Smaller groups often don't have a loyal network of potential donors from which to draw he says...
...that view is wildly skewed. The Vikings were indeed raiders, but they were also traders whose economic network stretched from today's Iraq all the way to the Canadian Arctic. They were democrats who founded the world's oldest surviving parliament while Britain was still mired in feudalism. They were master metalworkers, fashioning exquisite jewelry from silver, gold and bronze. Above all, they were intrepid explorers whose restless hearts brought them to North America some 500 years before Columbus...
...first, the Norse traded locally around the Baltic Sea. But from there, says Fitzhugh, "their network expanded to Europe and Britain, and then up the Russian rivers. They reached Rome, Baghdad, the Caspian Sea, probably Africa too. Buddhist artifacts from northern India have been found in a Swedish Viking grave, as has a charcoal brazier from the Middle East." The Hagia Sophia basilica in Istanbul has a Viking inscription in its floor. A Mycenaean lion in Venice is covered with runes of the Norse alphabet...
...certainly made a difference in Marco Antonio Mamani's life. Two years ago, Mamani, 33, was a jewelry craftsman in Cuzco, "selling what I could on a plastic sheet by the central square." Then a notice for a seminar on e-commerce by the Peruvian Science Network (rcp), a nonprofit organization that has spurred the launch of more than 500 public Internet centers across the country, piqued his interest. Taking advantage of rcp's free technical assistance and low use rates, Mamani set up a site hawking his jewelry online. Today he is a cyberentrepreneur. Nearly...
Tracy Ullman has been sending up American stereotypes on television for many many years now-her wildly popular self-titled show has gained her a vehemently loyal following. "The Simpsons," of course, premiered as a short on her show before exploding on the FOX Network. A comedic chameleon, Ullman barely stays in character for more than five minutes on her show, but she elicits sympathy and laughs as Frenchy Winkler, the lead role in Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks. Talking to her in New York City, I realized that Ullman is just as hilarious and witty off camera...