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...brought digital activists together who didn’t know each other but who had a common interest,” he said. “The Green Movement took a hydra-like approach to this, which is brilliant—everybody was a leader...
Potter sees science as a matter of measurements. Accordingly, he utilizes distance, time, and size as our tour guides. First, we travel outwards from Earth, flying by the planets, over the Kuiper belt, through the Oort cloud (what names!), and past the Orion Nebula, the Hydra-Centaurus supercluster and beyond. Then we venture downward in magnitude - atoms and quarks and gluons and strings and Higgs bosons. There are also journeys forward from the big bang and the creation of Earth. In between, he stuffs his pages with musings on scientific history, philosophy, and personalities...
Taken together, these arrests deal a major blow to the Mafia. But this hydra-like organization, also known as Cosa Nostra (Our Thing), is so deeply woven into the fabric of Sicilian society that the Italian state is far from claiming final victory. "Cosa Nostra is built on a capacity to adapt to the time and situation, to camouflage itself and raise its head only when necessary," says a senior Palermo-based investigator who worked on the Lo Piccolo case. Lo Piccolo's takedown shuffles the deck in the organization, but hardly eradicates...
...Decades later, the Fakir's stomping grounds are again ground zero in a war on terror. American, NATO and Pakistani troops face a hydra-like insurgency led by a string of shadowy extremist leaders who make expert use of the border's treacherous, land mine-riddled terrain, melting into the mountains only to resurface, ever stronger, from their myriad training camps and bases. "I doubt whether Washington in 2007 knows much more about what is happening in Waziristan than London did in 1937," says Alan Warren, a military historian and author of a book on Khan. If so, as with...
...need a broader term like data addiction to take in the sheer hydra-headedness of the ceaseless craving for digital stimulation that contemporary technology is creating in us. When it's not coming in through my eyes, digital information is taking over my ears via my beloved silver iPod Mini (one of Apple's orphaned design concepts). A survey conducted by Stanford University last fall found that more than 1 in 8 Americans suffers from some form of Internet addiction. It hardly needs to be said that this problem doesn't wreck lives with the ferocity of alcohol or narcotics...