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...need to buy less if we could learn to accept less upward mobility and slower growth. In the meantime, we'll have to feel our way to being a Better Generation. With the collapse of the World Trade Center, the curtain closed on the decade of wretched excess heralded when Wall Street's Gordon Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." When a plea went out on Sept. 12 that the rescue workers needed socks, thousands of pairs flooded Ground Zero. Word came to send money instead. The money poured in, but the socks kept coming. The task in this new decade...
Perhaps that is the motivation behind the man, that simple longing to be loved. From that basic desire has stemmed some of the most fascinating and over-the-top spectacles the world has ever seen. Jackson’s insecurities have spawned one mega-excess after another, all in a bid to (re)capture the love and attention he has craved since childhood. And it is within this context that his life and his career must be placed. With his comeback album, Invincible, he presents the world with idiosyncratic larger-than-life presentation...
...America that our enemies—the bin Ladens and Iranian mullahs, the fascist despots of Beijing and the tinpot tyrants of the Third World—enjoy painting us as, the champion of depravity and crass materialism, of corporate bottom lines and gaudy, hyper-capitalist excess, the America whose culture drowns in a sea of sadism and sensuality? Or will we be the America of our own fondest dreams, the champion of liberty at home and abroad, the nation whose commercial zeal is tempered by faith, hope and charity? The choice, for better or worse, is ours to make...
...just thinking that there was a need for blood,” Davidson said. “I usually don’t give blood when asked to because I don’t like to lie. Right now they have an excess, but at the time we didn’t know that...
...distended disk and is guided by an X-ray imaging system that reveals the needle's position at all times. A wandlike device is then threaded through the needle and into the disk. There it emits a burst of radio-frequency energy that heats and almost instantly vaporizes the excess tissue, providing in turn almost instant pain relief...