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...problem for the United States, says Thompson, "is that our military has become so good at what it does that if an enemy is going to attack us, it will be probably be unconventionally. The new military buzzword these days is 'asymmetrical warfare.'" So what can the U.S. do about this threat? "The country can improve its defenses marginally," says Thompson. "It can reduce the risk and ameliorate protection a bit, but it can't eliminate the problem." As usual, there are plenty of bullets -- but none of them are magic...
...earth, rural real estate development is another promising end-time business. In Colorado's San Luis Valley, a onetime physicist and computer programmer named Milt Trosper is fashioning High Valley Cyber Development, a would-be millennium-insulated community on a high plateau surrounded by mountains. "'Safe haven' is the buzzword," says Trosper. "People want to move here from Chicago, Florida, Ohio." If he can get $50 million in financing, he hopes to accommodate the nervous newcomers with a "smart" community of PC-operated, solar-heated homes...
...Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education W. Earl Sasser refers to the education and skills HBS faculty give their corporate students as "product." That corporate buzzword is typical of a setup that looks more like a cross between a consulting firm and a summer camp than a traditional university...
...justify Wall Street's love, the big search engines will have to give their audience ever better reasons to stay tuned. Yahoo and Excite understand this, and almost since their inception have been working to transcend their origins, morphing from simple navigation aids into (warning: buzzword ahead) "portals," mega-Websites that are designed to fulfill a wired citizen's every last online need: browsing, shopping, playing, chatting, whatever. "We began with simple searching," says Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, "and that's still a big hit--our Seinfeld, if you will--but we've also tried to develop a must...
Internationalization has been a Harvard buzzword for at least a decade. Though University officials haven't revealed an over-arching vision for these affairs, Derek C. Bok, Harvard president from 1971 to 1991, described his international outlook for Harvard in his 1987 Commencement address...