Word: prefabs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...monuments and marble and Gilbert Stuarts, most of Washington does not resonate; it is, even now, too new and prefab and utilitarian and somehow raw (as political power is raw, as a change of administrations has its matter-of-fact brutality). But Georgetown, tucked to the side of all that, to the west of the rawness, has its trees and old brick row houses, with Montrose Park to the north and the C & O canal and the Potomac to the south, and a certain embowered resonance that suggests the secrets and traditions of power. Its axes, M Street and Wisconsin...
...City, the United Federation of Teachers is pouring $2 million into writing a core curriculum for its members; the first installment hits classrooms this fall. More than 6,000 of America's 88,000 public schools have gone a step further, buying into one of a dozen or so prefab curriculums, known as whole-school reforms, that blueprint everything from textbooks to teacher training...
Carnival 2000, by Britpop group Prefab Sprout, was the music I chose for my sound track. It clocks in at less than 4 min.--short enough, I thought, for me to go mad with tons of MTV-style quick cuts spliced together with the professional-looking transitions (such as fade-in and cross-dissolve) that iMovie provides...
...hard to find a hacker last week who wasn't in full sneer about the so-called script kiddies--newcomers who would dare commit such ignoble attacks with prefab software. "A lot of us hackers feel insulted, because it's a no-brainer," says Val Koseroski, 32, a self-confessed "old-school" hacker with a wife, a child and a mortgage. "When I was growing up, hacking was about learning how a computer operates. You always tried to push it to the edge. Kids these days, they just want to do any damage they...