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...cover diagram suggested that the brain is astonishingly complex, while the story inside as much as said God is dead. But how can consciousness be the gift of evolution? If there is no giver, there is no gift. The brain would be just one more piece of meat in a material world. The Word became flesh only because something more than flesh is needed to produce words. (the Rev.) Joe Babendreier Nairobi, Kenya...
...koban was stuffed with flowers and cards from well wishers, and his colleagues lost track of the number of people who signed Miyamoto's condolence book. While Miyamoto was still in the hospital, students at a nearby elementary school delivered hundreds of folded cranes, a traditional get-well gift. "He was a stout man with caring eyes," remembers a tearful 73-year-old Yoshie Ikeda. "He always called out to me, saying 'Take care!'" Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Miyamoto's police station on the night of Feb. 12 to attend a viewing of the officer's body...
That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the "gift economy," the current term of art for this altruistic approach. Wikipedia is, of course, a prime example of the gift economy at work. Argue about its inaccuracies all you want, but the volunteer-authored online encyclopedia is on its way to becoming (if it isn't already) the world's dominant reference resource...
...question for the past decade was, Is this real?" says Yale law professor Yochai Benkler. "The question for the next half-decade is, How do you make this damned thing work?" Benkler is a leading prophet of today's gift economy, and he fits the part: his bounteous beard resembles Kropotkin's. He was treasurer of a kibbutz, a cooperative farm, in his native Israel. He doesn't mind being called utopian. But neither does Benkler dream of a world without capitalism. Instead, he has become an unlikely business guru, with a shop at the intersection of Commerce and Cooperation...
...understand, to trace back attitudes about work and impractical dreams as far as possible to see how they change and how they stay the same.Although the collection clearly has its weaknesses, Munro is exceptionally strong when she is working with the engrossing material of her own life. Her wonderful gift for using strong and limber sentences to collect her experiences allows her to share whatever significance she may have gathered from all of her searching and reimagining, adding her own unique recollections to the yellowing letters and journals of her ancestors...