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...your articles about the political events that led up to regime change in Central and Eastern Europe, we Hungarians are very proud of our contribution. We have just celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic: the opening of the border with Austria that allowed hundreds of East Germans to cross to the West. But this was preceded by many other events, such as the demonstrations by tens of thousands of people in Heroes' Square in Budapest in the summer of 1988 against Ceausescu's bulldozing of ethnic Hungarian villages in Romania, at a time when gatherings by just...
Handwriting has never been a static art. The Puritans simplified what they considered hedonistically elaborate letters. Nineteenth century America fell in love with loopy, rhythmic Spencerian script (think Coca-Cola: the soft-drink behemoth's logo is nothing more than a company bookkeeper's handiwork), but the early 20th century favored the stripped-down, practical style touted in 1894's Palmer Guide to Business Writing...
...that template to the 21st century, China would be the new us - feverish with individual and national drive, manufacturer to the world, growing like crazy, bigger and much more populous than the reigning superpower. And thus 21st century America would evolve, according to this analogy, like Britain in the 20th century...
...effort to counter high labor costs and to support further mechanization of its industries, and would like to see that number go up to one million over the next 15 years. "Robotics is to be for the Japanese economy in the 21st century what automobiles were in the 20th," says Jennifer Robertson, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. (See Japan's Greatest Design Hits...
...have confidence that he's the right man to help lead NATO during a period in which we are moving from a vision first created in the 20th century to a vision that responds to 21st century challenges." - President Obama, ABCnews.com, April...