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...trappings of a failed state are few. Liberian President Charles Taylor announced his resignation in a small, stuffy auditorium in the executive mansion, where the curtains consist of cheap red velvet and the chairs are painted gold. The mirrors on the pillars were dirty and paint-speckled, and the microphone volume waxed and waned. The traditional venue for state ceremonies, the Centennial Memorial Pavilion, lay too close to the front line. Until a last week, mortar shells had been falling all around...
...journalist in Munich. "It's a short escape and it's not really dangerous." For a pointless act, mobs have created a fair amount of serious analysis. Howard Rheingold, author of a 2002 book called Smart Mobs, thinks mobs are the newest form of social protest. "Smart mobs consist of people who are able to act in concert even if they don't know each other," writes Rheingold. Smart mobs have, he says, done things like help topple Philippine President Joseph Estrada. Do flash mobs have similar aspirations? Not according to Bill. "I'm a political person," he says...
...sure, researchers still don't understand everything there is to know about learning disabilities. Dyslexia, for one, may consist of several subtypes. "It would be very dangerous to assume that every child with reading problems is uniform and has the same kinds of breakdowns preventing him from learning to read," says Dr. Mel Levine, a pediatrician and author of several influential books about learning disabilities and dyslexia, including A Mind at a Time. But whatever the exact nature of the deficit, the search for answers begins with the written word...
...archives, located in the Barker Center, consist of various collections of materials that illustrate ways in which hip-hop culture has impacted youth culture. These include records and hip-hop gear as well as academic and journalistic writings and documents of political organizations formed by artists and members of the hip-hop community...
...calamity, in this case brought on by heedless bioengineering, the kind that sets loose viruses that melt down their victims like "pink sorbet on a barbecue." Then again, the world was asking for it, what with the webcast suicides, the rampant porn and the chickens bred genetically to consist of nothing but a mouth and a multitude of (barely) edible breasts. As for the social arrangements, the precatastrophe elite lived in walled compounds while everyone else scrambled in the teeming "pleeblands." In other words, it was the world we live in now, only more...