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Fold two is that everybody wants to be famous these days, and enough is never enough. Let me use an example: in their mid-20's, my grandparents were thrilled to have a small refrigerator (without freezer) and gas stove with a tiny oven. The house had one TV. My parents assumed they were due a bigger fridge with freezer, four burner stove and three-rack oven, dishwasher, toaster, mixmaster etc. The house had two TV's. My generation went for all that, plus microwave, automatic coffee maker, food processor, and a TV for living room, bedroom, and kitchen. The next generation assumes they're due all of that, plus espresso machine, bread maker, etc. And there's a TV in pretty much every room.
It's the same with being famous. In my grandparent's day, you got famous if you were a criminal or a politician. Artists whose fame went beyond regional were really rare; worldwide fame, even for classical artists, was almost non-existent. Nowadays, with television and magazines making it seem like there are more famous people than not, every artist figures they, too, can get really, really famous. And they want the whole hog.
The education industry can become an engine of economic growth if Singapore makes a concerted effort to capture a bigger slice of the burgeoning US$2.2 trillion world education market, says a government panel.
According to Japanese media, Japanese related department is pondering over a plan to set up Sino-Japan Technicians Exchange Center in order to support its middle-and-elder technicians washed out by Japanese enterprises to find work to do in China.
People are realizing that sex is an individual right, she said. In the past, the importance of the family was emphasized. Now there is more individualism, and people are paying more attention to emotions.
San Ge Dai Biao, or "Three Represents", is a new party theory, championed by President Jiang Zemin, that offers a rationale for China's shift from the Maoist era to the high-tech market era. The title "Three Represents" does not echo Marxist-Soviet language. Dai Biao, or Represents is an English-derived term that seems to many friendlier and even quasi-democratic. It's essential message: "Go with the times."
Inside the language of San Ge Dai Biao, you can be either liberal or conservative, says a Beijing business executive. It is an excuse to move forward.
The basics of journalism, of fact-finding and of interviewing (and occasionally writing), are substantially lower on the food chain than the industry-shaping issues of distribution and supply and demographics and technology and the creation of hit formats.
Something else was always there -- political, rebellious and young -- and, Animal House's creators would say, that something was just as important as the vomit jokes.
I have been in love, and I believe in love. But after my first love I realized that there was a lot more to life than just being in love. Having that first love taught me that I had the capacity to be in love, and that it could happen. And love can be found in lots of different places. To the people who are wondering where are the normal, nice, functional people their own age to date, I say, "Get a life". Everyone comes with their baggage. Perhaps it's the arrogance of youth (of any generation) to expect that they have the right to a mate who is as perfect and as well-adjusted as they themselves. Good for them. Have a nice time writing melodramatic little odes to your lost youth.
Some religious and social conservatives say that that egg, by itself, is an individual. I find it hard to understand. If that egg is an individual, it means it has the same status as a living human being. When human beings die, the next of kin ordinarily have a funeral. So if you follow their logic, women should be having funerals for these so-called individuals that they lose every 30 days. I know it's a rather cynical way to look at it, however, it's very important to look logically at the problem, rather than emotionally.
His recovery is unprecedented, but Reeve and his doctors agree it is largely the result of intensive physical therapy, not some miraculous power of will, and he is embarrassed by the idea that people might think otherwise.
But, she said, "disposability and obsolescence are growing trends in fashion and electronics," particularly among younger consumers. They are the reason that another Swedish retailer, Hennes Mauritz AB, which sells evanescent bargain apparel at its H&M clothing stores, has grown rapidly in the United States.
"The consumer has bought into disposability in clothing," said Candace Corlett, a principal at WSL Strategic Retail in New York, a consulting company. "You buy the T-shirt at Old Navy that's good for eight weeks, and, great, you throw it out. These aren't cherished pieces," Corlett said.
When one suggests that these acts of terror, like 9/11, are America's fault, there is a distinction lost. It assumes it's the fault of Americans. That assumes implicitly that we all have the power to change America. We don't.
[...] Democracy is built upon a notion that is exquisite and dangerous. It virtually states that if the will of the populace is freely expressed, more good than bad will result.
Women work again. Traders fly off to cut deals in Karachi and Delhi and Dubai. Families argue over which television programs to watch on their new satellite systems. People play music again and sing traditional Afghan ballads. Old men parade caged birds and small boys fly kites. Any fair reckoning of what the United States has accomplished here since Sept. 11, and what it has not, does well to begin with these liberties, for they are the starting point for Afghans when they are asked about the past 12 months.
Just as surely, many Afghans proceed to a litany of hopes and promises they consider unredeemed, and for which, fairly or not, they hold the United States to account.
But in the years since Herrera's book was published, Kahlo has become so many things to so many people that she is barely recognizable as a human being. She has been hailed as a feminist icon who devoted her life to portraying the pain and suffering of all womankind, held up as a model of sexual freedom and unconventional lifestyles, lauded as an intellectual who stood up bravely (if somewhat blindly) for the political causes she believed in, and wept over as a martyr who survived being squashed by the thumb of the patriarchy, or at least that of a bad husband. There's even a Web site devoted to her that mentions, with tongue in cheek (at least let's hope so), a religion called Kahloism, in which the artist is worshipped as the one true God.
As an example, RSS is nothing more than a quick news blurb that gets consumed in less than 24 hours and doesn't persist. The power of RDF isn't necessary for RSS used by aggregators, primarily because the data doesn't persist and one thing about the search for knowledge: it does require that the bits of the knowledge stick around long enough to be discovered.
Basically, metadata needs to fulfill these three functions:
- render each item in the collection uniquely identifiable;
- provide multiple pathways for finding each item; and,
- place the information contained in each item into context with other documents, items, information and knowledge.
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