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Even if the Chinese government hadn't used tanks and guns to crack down the immature movement in 1989, it still wouldn't have lasted long. As a witness myself, I'm convinced of this by what I saw and heard in those chaotic days. In late May, when the college students first began their sit-ins all across the country, the nation was greatly stirred. Reminded by the students of the bureaucratic corruption and other social evils, people from all walks of life mustered up courage to join in. At this point, the way things were going resembled...
...Apple was a major technology company with assets to make any self-respecting techno-conglomerate salivate. The next day Apple was a chaotic mess without a strategic vision and certainly no future. Sun Microsystems was clearly trying to get Apple for a cheap price: something between $3 billion and $4 billion for a company that sold $11.1 billion worth of computers in its last fiscal year and is generally ranked as No. 2 or No. 3 in shipments of personal computers worldwide...
...promoters of the sweepstakes have attempted to contact the winners by phone, McNitt said. But she said they have been only partially successful in tracking down the winners during the chaotic opening week of classes...
...Wave" series juxtaposes the modern anxieties of confrontations between Americans and Japanese into the traditional format of old Japanese prints, informed some what with anime qualities. In "Mega Morning Calm," Y. David Chung confronts the viewer with the imposing sight of two enormous urns flanking a central chaotic painting; look inside the jars for a treat...
...Life, which described the strangeness of early fossils, was fascinating, your update of new scientific findings is more so. It not only adds pieces to this intriguing puzzle but also goes one step further: making an analogy between the events of the Cambrian explosion and the characteristics of a chaotic system. In so doing, you raise a disturbing question: Might not theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman's idea of the intrinsic instability of the evolving system be greatest when the gradient of change is at its steepest? If so, is the closing paragraph of your report pointing out the precariousness...