Word: swarm
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Last year's swarm of millennial retrospectives put a peculiar emphasis on Gutenberg's invention of moveable type, as if it prefigured all subsequent media revolutions: television, the Internet, etc. What the Discovery Channel failed to drool over was the near-simultaneous development of printmaking. In the fifteenth century, woodcuts and engravings were accessible to an audience much larger than the small literate classes, and even today we cannot claim to be anything other than a visual culture. Early prints should be as important to us as early editions of the Bible...
...face is everywhere, endorsing electronic appliances, soft drinks and an airline. When the team travels the league circuit, squealing fans swarm around him. "I've never seen anything like it," says American teammate Reggie Jefferson. "He's like a rock star." Around the Lions clubhouse, there is even some grumbling that Matsuzaka is being spoiled. Last year, when the other Lions players were in fall training camp, Matsuzaka was treated to a trip to the American World Series in New York City. "I think the team is in danger of ruining him with all this special treatment," says a team...
...surprisingly, though, that doesn't satisfy the swarm of trial lawyers and consumer advocates buzzing about--and therein lies the companies' real problem. No matter how well they handle the basic mechanics of the recall, the wheels are coming off their efforts at damage control...
...march proceeded without incident, although when one anti-police-brutality protester started stamping his feet furiously after police asked him to step onto the sidewalk, a feverish swarm of cameras and microphones descended, the closest thing to a panic all afternoon. Near the FU Center, a handful of marchers sat down in the street, refusing to be funneled to a park across the street from the Center. But even they were talked into moving after only a few minutes...
...houses, Dolores Dandridge had just placed a table outside to serve her grandchildren lunch. From out of nowhere, she says, nearly a dozen policemen streaked after Jones about 100 yds. from her. Dandridge watched as about five or six officers caught up to him. "The police were swarming around him like bees swarm honey," she says. "They began to beat him, punching him and kicking him. He had his hands in the air, and I didn't see any gun. People were screaming at the police, telling them to stop, that they were going to kill...