Word: concepting
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...reality TV, 90% of success is in the concept, and Survivor's remains the master equation: isolation + cash prize + hot-weather clothing = entertainment. Still, the 10% that is execution separates the best from the rest, and Survivor remains a constantly surprising and enthralling game, both socially and physically. Even after seven years, there's no clear single best way to win the political game: Is it better to be liked or respected, a master athlete or a master strategist? Whether or not it sheds any light on how people behave in real society, it remains the most engrossing example...
...young folks. The hope would be that some fraction of those so ensnared will be inspired to dedicate their lives - or at least a part of their lives - to public service. And it's possible. But a larger fraction may regard the whole exercise somewhat cynically, and the very concept of "volunteerism" under this kind of pressure may turn the word into a joke. The exclusion of kids whose parents are wealthy enough to buy their way out - as young men could buy their way out of the Civil War - will do nothing to reduce such cynicism. And young people...
...says John Edwards, chief economist in Australia for the HSBC financial group. Since the U.N. already has a framework for addressing the issue, he argues, APEC's impact will be negligible. Meanwhile, "they have missed the opportunity to do something serious on the issue of trade, by advancing the concept of an overarching free-trade agreement for the region...
Ling says that she and her colleagues plan to expand their research in future studies to other cultures - not only British and Chinese - and age groups, including infants, to further test the nature-versus-nurture concept...
Still, as a visionary, Van Praagh was far more forward thinking than anyone else in this issue. His concept of the future is bold and beautiful and, though he kept saying "this is really weird," not at all weird. Just awesome. I'm going to carry a man bag, see more breasts and have one son named Alex and another named Alec. Waving goodbye, as he walked back into his cheery bungalow just across the street from the façade used for My Three Sons, Van Praagh, looking almost beatific, yelled, "Nice meeting you, Josh!" And, for a moment...