Word: contagions
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...forum to debate Fairey's "acts of vandalism" in defacing billboards or the place of street art vis--vis advertising. My point is simply that a marvel which requires years of effort from thousands of volunteers should be considered as much a marvel of organization as of mimetic contagion. What's curious is simply the sheer amount of will that goes into making a cultural phenomenon: a lesson for seniors who want to change the world...
...billion in damages and struck from Manila to Missouri. (To put that in perspective, if you were given a dollar every second for 100 years, you wouldn't have half the amount of damages caused by this one technological expression of malice.) With the rise of such devastating computer contagion, I thought it important to understand what viruses can do, why they are so effective and ultimately how computer users--and Harvard students--can protect against them...
Many of the wisest Americans have muttered under their breath that if Texas Gov. George W. Bush wins this election, they would move to Canada. Alas! Elections seem to be a political contagion. Canada herself is now caught in furious political debate that will culminate on Nov. 27 with the choice of a new Prime Minister. If you are planning on becoming a political refugee, I encourage you to take a close look at the passionately political country that you'd be fleeing to. The move, I think, would be more of a culture shock than many would believe...
...short, it's October again, and investors are behaving like idiots again. This time last year it was the Y2K bug; the year before, presidential impeachment and the collapse of hedge fund Long-Term Capital; the year before that, the plunging Thai baht and Asian contagion. None of those crises proved catastrophic to U.S. stocks...