Word: basically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thanks to TV, the Internet, and video games, it's no wonder that we have lost even the most basic instinct for staying fit. Exercise should be a daily activity at the top of everyone's list of things to do. It gives a feeling of well-being that cannot be matched by any of our more stationary daily activities. Exercise should not be a chore. It should be a personal requirement that every American feels happy to fulfill...
Given such success, it may seem ludicrous to ask, Can China innovate? The country produces four times as many engineers as the U.S., and its spending on basic R&D is accelerating smartly. What's to stop innovation from breaking out all over? Skeptics have a ready answer: theft of intellectual property. Innovation depends on the value of ideas being protected, so the entrepreneur with a technological breakthrough reaps the rewards--not "six guys down the street who've stolen it," says Jim Hemerling, senior vice president of Boston Consulting Group in Shanghai. In the past two years, companies from...
...China's communist regime is encouraging go-go people to make loads of money, but continues to repress those same individuals while denying the rest of its citizens basic rights. Without a hint of irony, a few months ago Defence Minister Robert Hill remarked that China is not "a democracy of our type." Quite. The so-called "peaceful rise of China" is a global brand; it has been marketed as such to Western consumers, who don't think long about China's prisons, its taste for capital punishment or its scant regard for workers' rights. Just keep the cheap stuff...
...second reason for the increase in gang violence is just as basic. As gang members like Chino are coming back to their old neighborhoods, the police--demoralized by scandal--are backing out of them. In the mid-'90s, the L.A.P.D. curtailed gang violence with some hard-nosed policing, spearheaded by tough CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) units. But after Rafael Perez, a rogue cop from the L.A.P.D.'s Rampart division, was arrested in 1998 for stealing cocaine from a police warehouse, he implicated 70 antigang cops, alleging corruption, excessive force, planting evidence and falsifying testimony. In the end, eight...
...MIKED UP To boost sound quality, pick up an add-on microphone. Basic models from Sony can be had at amazon.com for about $50. At the higher end, try the Rode VideoMic, which yields rich sound...