Word: embeddedness
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It's tough to be a foreign bank in Singapore. To protect the local banking industry, the Southeast Asian city-state limits the number of automated-teller machines, or ATMs, that foreign banks can operate and restricts their access to local ATM networks. Citibank has found a way around this...
Keeping kids from viewing porn online has never been tougher. Even when you're trying to avoid it, sexually explicit material pops up everywhere, from mistyped URLs for popular sites to links embedded in instant messages. The Supreme Court decision last week to block enforcement of a rule that would...
Every war has unintended consequences, and literature is usually one of them. The recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have already begotten a shelf of new memoirs by soldiers and embedded journalists, documents that arrive months after the insta-news of cable and the Internet, but hit harder and go...
Combat has always been a way for young Americans to define themselves as a generation. Rolling Stone's Evan Wright was embedded with a Marine reconnaissance unit, and his Generation Kill (Putnam; 354 pages) is a pungently written combat narrative and a close-range study of a bunch of twentysomething...
The current enthusiasm can be traced in part, oddly enough, to last summer's high-profile flop of a market that was supposed to help predict future terrorist attacks. A public backlash killed that Pentagon project a few months before its debut, but not before the media broadcast the notion...