Word: developable
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...creature stood on two legs instead of scurrying along chimplike on all fours. Its knuckle-walking cousins would stay low to the ground and never get much smarter. But while it wouldn't happen until millions of years in the future, this new primate's evolutionary descendants would eventually develop a large, complex brain. And from that would spring all of civilization, from Mesopotamia to Mozart to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire...
Couples who missed the chance to negotiate their divorce ahead of time can now develop property settlements after their wedding day. It's done with a "postnup"--a legal agreement that spells out how assets will be divided in case of divorce or death. Those who most often pursue postnups do so as the result of a major change in their financial picture, such as the arrival of an inheritance. With more couples blending families, a postnup can mandate that a mother's assets pass directly to her biological children, not the stepkids. Or a husband can cap the total...
...very stark message, given that export manufacturers are about the only thing that has fed Asia's economies for the past three years. If China takes this vital source of nourishment away, and Asian countries don't clean up their economies so that new industries in new sectors can develop, their only hope might be to wait for another speculative bubble. Anyone got a hot property...
...with China's eventual entry into the World Trade Organization, domestic moviemakers will face an onslaught of Hollywood blockbusters. Although Feng's Be There, Be Square scored $5 million at the box office, that's paltry compared to the $40 million Titanic raked in. "Unless we develop directors like Feng Xiaogang, our industry is in trouble," says Wang Zhonglei, Big Shot's executive producer. "We have to recognize what our audiences want and how to break into the international market...
...balanced life." Management will be reinvented. "Work will remain in tomorrow's enterprise and will still need to be managed. But people will increasingly manage themselves," Donkin writes. Less predictably, he argues that barriers between work and leisure will blur, cooperatives will flourish and a new work ethic will develop based on personal choice and the needs of society. Given current Western views about work - broadly defined as "living for work" - and Donkin's nirvana in which toil offers the hope of something better, the question arises of how society will move from...