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...studies the exotic fields from the outskirts of California's Silicon Valley, maintains that the frontier industries are changing the way other, more commonplace businesses are conducted. These technologies, he says, are "transforming the whole economy." Textiles and apparel making, for example, are usually considered labor-intensive, backward industries. But instead of being displaced by that technology, contends Zysman, textile manufacturing is part of the new industrial revolution. Cloth can be cut by laser beams, and looms are driven by computers programmed, ironically in some cases, to duplicate the irregularities of hand weaving. Insurance companies offer a variety...
...United States is the most politically backward country in the world," Ture said, calling American culture "bourgeois" and the American political scene "obscene." But he added that "humans have an instinctive love for justice" and will keep fighting for equality until they overcome "vicious capitalist pigs...
...called Harvard students who use knowledge for their own advancement "stupid" and "backward." He said that Black students should remember that they would not be at Harvard today if Black civil rights leaders of the sixties had not fought for racial equality...
...been quickened by his friend and mentor Gandhi, his intellectual theories refined at Harrow and Cambridge. As Prime Minister, he ambitiously embarked upon a path of democratic socialism, hoping to bring industry, literacy and, above all, modernity to an India that was in many areas poverty stricken and backward. Abroad, as his own Foreign Minister, he pursued a policy of fierce anticolonialism. In 1960 he became a founding member of the nonaligned movement; his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit served as an early president...
...single man, solitary on stage, stands staring through a piece of rectangular plastic, a small, open circle rounded by red at its center. He falls backward, rigid, his body hitting the ground so hard it raises clouds of dust and makes a sound like a dull detonation. A siren starts to shriek. It could be a warning, or a summons...