Word: designers
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What once seemed an unassailable idea is now ensnared in presidential politics, the byzantine workings of phone deregulation and the design flaws of a funding scheme that camouflages the costs of a huge new federal program by putting it on people's phone bills. Only 75 days into the first round of applications for the program's money, about 30,000 schools and libraries have rushed in to claim $2 billion, far outstripping the $625 million the Federal Communications Commission has collected from the phone companies. This has left the commission with the unpalatable option of scaling back its promises...
...come so far: he is the secret society's flak. His opening gambit is to invite a reporter to a gathering of worldwide Masonic grand masters at the New York Grand Lodge. And the event is grandly international: 75 delegations in Masonic aprons of every color and design, Lebanese hobnobbing with Cote d'Ivoirans and multitudinous Brazilians, engaged for the first time (although the cabal-obsessed may dispute this) in establishing an international Masonic coordination. Still Feingold can't forgo bragging about the domestic organization. "Fourteen Presidents have been Masons," he says; "nine signers of the Declaration of Independence...
Could it be that people today just don't care about the future? That's what Tony Baxter, the "Imagineer" who oversees Disneyland design, seems to be getting at when he discusses Tomorrowland's overhaul. Baxter talks at length of the need for the park to make "an emotional connect" with visitors, to draw on prevailing cultural myths. "Dreams about the future were very easy to tap into in the '50s," he says. "There were so many challenges left unrealized because of the Depression and World War II--there was a lot left to dream about." The promise...
...year or so, ask yourself whether you enjoy 90-hour work weeks, corporate culture, big city lifestyle. If you do, terrific. And if you don't, remember you're not stuck: You've got a college diploma and skills coming out your ears and your life is yours to design...
...decision to drop the stripes was made about seven months ago in a meeting between Jobs and his advertising, design and marketing executives. "It was quite unanimous," Jobs told TIME. "The stripes just felt like the '70s or early...