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...York City's entrenched publishing culture. Old Publishing is stately, quality-controlled and relatively expensive. New Publishing is cheap, promiscuous and unconstrained by paper, money or institutional taste. If Old Publishing is, say, a tidy, well-maintained orchard, New Publishing is a riotous jungle: vast and trackless and chaotic, full of exquisite orchids and undiscovered treasures and a hell of a lot of noxious weeds. (See the top 10 non-fiction books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books Gone Wild: The Digital Age Reshapes Literature | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...push to create a museum, opponents say that Sarkozy will pillage other collections to create the illusion of a unified and coherent vision of French history, a past that is actually very diverse, complex and chaotic. "A single venue dedicated to the history of France makes no sense, and is even dangerous in seeking to create a single, global, and unique (national) history," curator, scholar, and former Picasso Museum director Jean Clair told the Journal du Dimanche. "It's totally a incomprehensible project, because all museums are historical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong With a Museum of French History? | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

...Chaos theory says that behavior that appears to be random is not. The future dynamics of chaotic systems are always defined by their initial conditions. Even the most unruly process cannot defy prediction. That may work for people who have PhDs in math but for the balance of investors chaos is chaos, plain and simple. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chaos Theory Takes Hold Of Corporate Earnings | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

...None of this should make stockholder fell better. Chaos and the difficulty of making predictions in chaotic time has even the most gifted traders, the hedge funds and institutions, by the throat and it throttling the life out of investors. In a market in which nothing is certain or nearly certain the people who own equities become more panicked by the day and their trading becomes less disciplined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chaos Theory Takes Hold Of Corporate Earnings | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

...entire lives are now one long, chaotic stream of existence: waiting in line each morning to fill up containers with water from the only working tap on the ground floor of our building; baking homemade bread from the depleting supply of flour we managed to obtain a few days into the offensive; turning on the power generator for 30 to 50 minutes in the evening to charge phones and watch the news. Meanwhile, the constant in our lives has become the voice of the reporter on the small transistor radio giving reports every few seconds of the location and resulting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Person: Living in Gaza, Under Starlight and Bomb Blasts | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

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