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Howard Rheingold, who has made a career of writing about the implications of technology, last year published Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution—a book positing that technological innovation was redefining age-old patterns of collective action...
...Christian cross, the minaret would scarcely be distinguishable from the towers of the surrounding churches. As it is, the biggest distinction is the very different sound emanating from the minaret's upper reaches, where a muezzin calls the faithful to prayer five times a day with the age-old words "Allahu Akbar" (God is great). The first call is at 5:30 a.m., "but the muezzin tries to keep the volume down so as not to annoy the neighbors," Ruiz says. The neighbors have mixed feelings about the mosque. "We need to put the past behind us and think...
Technology is beginning to influence even age-old traditions of scholarship, he said...
Matt Ridley wrote about the age-old dispute over which is more influential in creating the behavior and personality of a human being, nature or nurture [SCIENCE, June 2]. With our ever greater understanding of how genetics works, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the nature-vs.-nurture debate has been too polarized. Nature (genetics) and nurture (training and environment) are so intertwined that it is almost impossible to claim that one is dominant over the other. Ridley speculated that it may be the way our minds work that has sustained this perennial debate. It has been true that when...
...age-old problem. Young men in uniform, eager to get home, dismissive or just plain ignorant of local customs and unable to express themselves with anything more than a vein-popping scream and a brandished machine gun. "You are f_____g around. Just f___ off!" a soldier yelled at an Iraqi who was trying to visit the regional governor's residence in Kirkuk last week. (Every Iraqi, sadly, already knows the F word.) "The American soldier is, please excuse the word, very high-handed," says Abu Mousa, a veteran Iraqi journalist. Much more worrisome: some Iraqis believe the U.S. troops...