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Freidanck believes air travelers are only going to get more sophisticated about what they eat when they're aloft. With the recent advent of cooking shows, he says, "every passenger is a gourmand...
...progressives,” the idea of progress is out of vogue these days, either written off as a relic of the Enlightenment or denounced as a canard of Western imperialism. For a bygone older generation, the myth of progress perished with Hiroshima: It symbolized the advent of a world in which our scientific intelligence had become tragically commensurate to our most vicious appetites...
...Personally, I would prefer to keep the King's rule. But even a good monarchy is seen as an autocratic government.' KUNZANG WANGDI, chief election commissioner of Bhutan, after the Himalayan kingdom held a mock election on April 21 to prepare citizens for the advent of a parliamentary government next year. King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck whose father initiated the move toward democracy, will oversee the switch, although many Bhutanese say they would prefer him to remain in charge
...very taken with the idea of consumers creating content for the Internet. With the advent of blogs, tagging, personal profiles, garage band music and amateur web videos, instant notoriety is just an "upload" click away. The sheer volume of user content is staggering. Wikipedia's user-created entries have surpassed the 5 million mark. In 2006 YouTube announced that it had served over 100 million video clips per day. With such vast libraries of lip-synched videos and episodes of LonelyGirl15, the numbers seem to indicate that this phenomenon has gone mainstream...
...necessary byproduct of economic development. Mann calls this the "Starbucks fallacy," a reference to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's argument that when people have more choices of coffee than they do of leaders, political change is inevitable. But Mann sees a third way, a path between the advent of democracy and a collapse into chaos that is generally considered to be China's only alternative to political change. Twenty years from now, he says, China could still be as authoritarian as it is today. Far from ushering in democracy, it's possible that China's newly rich urban...