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When Annie Schrader, 46, was released from prison in 2002, her only employment had been running an escort service and dealing drugs. A long job search yielded no possibilities and a deepening depression. "It's a huge problem because you know you can flip some dope and make a lot of money," says Schrader, who now counsels other ex-cons through a ministry called StretcherBearers...
Some advances barely get noticed. Those new game boxes? Lots of ink. Not so much the new chips that run them. So it is with this year's Technology Pioneers. Consumers will flip when they see MicroOptical's video goggles, and they'll dig Ruckus' wireless router. In rural India, where Drishtee is taking computers to the poorest people, the benefit is obvious. But Dust Networks' self-organizing mesh networking system is pretty cool if, say, you work in industry. So too are the paper batteries of Enfucell or the flexible sensors of DeepStream. Sensors are a real big deal...
Should we also toss on the fire Dick Gregory's autobiography, written for cross-consumption as a harsh accounting of the racial indignities heaped upon a young black as he travels from boy to man? The book's ultimate satirical trick was to flip the slur into a sales tool. Its title: Nigger! "Whenever you hear the word 'nigger,'" Gregory wrote in the introduction, "you'll know they're advertising my book." Call a man a nigger, earn a brother a dollar...
...other to start the to-and-fro of pleasantries that might very well lead to mention of coffee, no, strike that, a drink nearby, but she’ll be damned if that half-somnolent insect didn’t provoke the hand that in a few flip-flap motions scotched that fantasia altogether...
...white be inherently suspect, even if they don't reflect the racial breakdown of the district as a whole? "It doesn't make sense," local PTA-board member Dreema Jackson says of the guidelines. "It's O.K. for the minority to be between 15% and 50%, but if you flip those percentages, a school is no longer diverse...