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Complexity theory was born in 1984, when brainiacs from the Los Alamos National Laboratory founded the Santa Fe Institute. The SFI remains a cauldron of Ph.D. sorcery, where physicists and biologists consort with psychologists and anthropologists, all in pursuit of the patterns that underlie the adaptive systems around us. "The bigger story," says Susan Ballati, SFI's director, "is not about Bios Group or SFI or other offshoots; rather, it is how a complex adaptive-systems approach to looking at the world is really what will be driving policy, business, education and research in the 21st century...
Sydney meant fun and games for Venus and her kid sister Serena as they danced to the doubles crown, but it meant brutal pressure for a woman named Cathy Freeman, who opened the Games by ceremonially lighting the cauldron and then, with the weight of her country upon her, came through sensationally in her footrace to become the first Aboriginal Australian ever to win an individual gold medal...
Violence has once again erupted in the Middle East; fierce fighting and clashes have taken the lives of many in this cauldron of fire. When will peace be given a chance? We must address these questions. The pinnacle of the Middle East crisis is, of course, the sovereignty of Jerusalem, the city holy to Muslims, Jews and Christians alike. Both the Israelis and the Palestinians want to make it the capital of their state. I say Jerusalem should be left alone. It is a place in which to pay homage, not to formulate government policies. Making Jerusalem an administrative capital...
...have all been blocked by various filters for discussing the issue of Internet pornography. Many programs have blocked the websites of their competitors. Sometimes the blocks seem completely incomprehensible, as in the case of the Latin text of St. Augustine's "Confessions"--which, although it describes Carthage as "a cauldron of unholy loves," could hardly be described as titillating...
...next morning, I saw the prime minister on TV. Howard's an arch-conservative and a monarchist, and you just know that it got right up his nose when Cathy was chosen to light the cauldron at Opening Ceremonies. But now he was saying, "Cathy Freeman is an Aborigine and an Australian and she's proud of that, and we're proud...