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...alarming collapse of the region's economies and spikes in militant violence. It's unclear, though, what a beefed-up American role in the region could look like, and whether it would be in concert - or at odds - with Moscow or Beijing. Headlines in the international press tout the advent of the new "Great Game" in a region that for centuries has been at the whim of larger forces. Not many locals are that interested, though. "We waited and hoped for democratic change after the influence of America," says Umida Niyazova, a journalist and prominent Uzbek activist living in exile...
...paid witness to Susan Boyle’s on-stage coup d’état). The more fundamental change, however, has come in the content, volume, and sources from which we glean our information. The scope and depth of answerable academic questions has broadened dramatically with the advent of digitized databases. Indeed, it is inside the classroom that the Harvard student has most directly experienced the much-celebrated “democratization of knowledge.” Wikipedia and other free information databases that are created and accessed anonymously pose a serious problem for the priests of high...
...practically as long as there's been an Internet, vandals, troublemakers and criminals have sought to exploit it. Even before the advent of the personal computer, "phone phreaks" manipulated computerized phone systems to make free long-distance calls. (Reportedly among them, by many accounts: future computer pioneers Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, who would go on to found Apple Computer.) One infamous phreak, John Draper, became known as Captain Crunch after discovering in 1972 that he could fool AT&T's network with the tone from a plastic whistle distributed with the breakfast cereal. Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick became...
...cooking, occasionally to extremes. “If during a season you made too much lettuce, everybody ate lettuce,” he said. Many of Israel’s unique fruit juices were originally created during an orange surplus. According to Ben-Yehoyada, the 1990s saw the advent of popular Israeli and Jewish ethnic food. But many items associated with Israel in fact originated all over Europe and the Middle East. Schnitzel, from Germany, is often stuffed into pita, Falafel is Egyptian, Israeli salad is actually Turkish, and fried eggplant is Iraqi. “[Ben-Yehoyada] was incredible...
...thing to admire at leisure, when maybe visiting the museum or institution that houses a rare manuscript would be more time-consuming than clicking on an image and zooming to the parts that seem most interesting. Here's to hoping digitizing history and artifacts doesn't do what the advent of new media has done to print...