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First-generation technology, you'll recall, allowed homemakers to call their partners on the way home from work to nag them to pick up the dry cleaning. (It succeeded zero-generation: yelling real loud.) That begat 2G, which most of us use, though rarely to its full potential, which includes text messaging and sending smiley faces to classmates. (DoCoMo became a renewed symbol of Japanese tech prowess by popularizing those features, especially with the young, through its i-mode service.) 3G is an exponential jump, allowing one to do pretty much anything a PC can, anywhere. Its hype was such...
...Assets bred ambition, and soon Wilhelm II's Germany was clamoring for colonies, a blue-water navy, "a place in the sun." Her Majesty's Britain was not amused, and neither were Russia and France. Armament begat counter-armament, alliances spawned counter-alliances. Domestically, too, the Reich resembled contemporary China. Having unleashed irrepressible economic growth, the Kaiser and his aristocracy found themselves in the same deadly dilemma as Deng's heirs today: How to keep power away from the rising middle classes? The answer: nationalism and chauvinism, which exacerbated diplomatic conflicts with Berlin's neighbors...
...onlookers scrambled for pieces of the rope used to hang Roscoe Jackson, who murdered a traveling salesman. Thirty-five years after that spectacle, capital punishment was banned in America. Since its reinstatement in 1976, the death penalty has been sanitized and closeted. The rope in the town square begat Old Sparky, which begat lethal injection, both administered behind tall prison walls. Bringing executions back out into the open--not closed-circuit TV but TV--is a leap most often advocated by those who want to do away with them. They believe that capital punishment would lose the support...
...That they do. The Whitewater investigation, which begat the Paula Jones case, which begat Monica, who begat the first U.S. impeachment in a century and just about everything else that's shrill, strident and entertaining about politics these days, is all done, and Bush will come back to office with one less hot potato. As Siewert said in his own words, the deal effectively means the end of the OIC's work "without the filing of any criminal charges, the obtaining of any plea or the acknowledgment of any criminal conduct...
...Witness begat witness. The statistician for the plaintiff offered Clark an "alternate remedy" of 1,500-1,800 tossed votes, in case it was the "all" that bothered her about tarshing absentee ballots...