Word: homegrown
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...Royal Navy, working in the service of opium smugglers, forced the imperial government to accept foreign trade. As China sees its history, the country was subjected to foreign humiliation for the next century, its territory invaded and dismembered, its people raped and massacred. Along with the foreign interventions came homegrown catastrophes: rebellions, revolutions, civil wars, famine and unspeakable cruelty. Luan, the Chinese word for chaos, is perhaps the single most important concept that the outside world needs to grasp about the new China, for the memory of the long years of chaos continues to have a profound impact on Chinese...
...with a call to oppose "anyone trying to incite hatred." But sectarian violence has worsened under his reign. Musharraf has been reluctant to act against militant groups, largely to avoid alienating the fundamentalist political parties keeping his secular political opposition at bay. "The government does not recognize the threat homegrown terrorists pose to the stability of Pakistan," says Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based NGO. "Isn't it time the government recognized the price of the game being played...
...same technique, an experiment that culminated in Monet's widely acclaimed variations on the Houses of Parliament in London and the waterlilies at his home in Giverny. Senn, an opinionated and eclectic collector, appears to have bought Boudin's work because he liked it, not just to support homegrown talent. He didn't seem to care for other artists with local connections like Dufy or Georges Braque. Occasionally, Senn fell for something avant garde, like Felix Vallotton's 1898 The Waltz. And who wouldn't? Sinuous couples skate at Paris' Palais de Glace, while artificial light bouncing...
...hero of World Series Game 3 in St. Louis was Veteran Second Baseman Frank White, Kansas City's most thoroughly homegrown player, who moved up to fourth in the batting order for the American Leaguers' odd year of nine-man baseball, when "Hired Hitter" Hal McRae became a designated sitter. A graduate of the defunct Kansas City Royals Baseball Academy, White was raised in the shadow of the old ballpark at Second and Brooklyn, but not to be a cleanup hitter. "When I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as the next guy," he said after smashing...
...restrictive immigration policies, a lack of R&D spending, the culture wars and stepped-up competition from abroad (cue the maelstrom). Not only are Americans more likely to get sucked into such cities as Sydney and Dublin, writes Florida, but China and India are increasingly able to retain homegrown talent that in prior years saw the U.S. as the premier destination for a university education and career. Florida has adapted for countries his (controversial) way of ranking cities. On the Global Creativity Index--which assumes that creative talent, technology and tolerance lead to economic growth--the U.S. ranks fourth, behind...