Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take, for instance, these three givens: the iBook is wireless, it needs a full-size keyboard, and it must make sense for schools. From here the design implications topple like dominos. Both the wireless idea and the education focus demand long battery life, because what's the point of lugging a wireless into class if the machine is always asking to be plugged in? But being able to run for six hours (the length of a school day) demanded a large battery, which the full keyboard forced down to the machine's bottom lip. The design guys, meanwhile, had decided...
...male entitlement, over a culture that despises older single women and over myths they can't compete with. In a pointed scene, the four watch a video in which a woman climaxes two seconds into a sex scene. "No wonder men are so lost," Miranda says. "They have no idea there's more work involved." City is a fantasy, yes--few viewers will ever access its designer-clad uptown monde--but it's as real as TV sex has ever been...
...spirit of reform. He restored political and economic stability. Never give up--have the courage to say no--embrace a collective ambition that leaves behind special interests: that is the message of Gaullism. It is one for all times and all nations. De Gaulle not only affirmed a certain idea of France. He also had a certain idea of mankind. And that idea allowed him to accomplish the impossible. --Jacques Chirac, President of France...
...idea for a Riverkeeper sprang from the hard head of Bob Boyle, a writer at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and a sportfisherman who in the 1960s fought for clean waters and founded the Hudson River Fishermen's Association--at the time an unlikely alliance of commercial interests and environmentalists. American environmental law came into its own in 1980, when the Con Edison power company, after a battle with the fishermen, dropped its plan to build a huge facility on Storm King Mountain near the Hudson that was designed to store water for hydroelectric-power generation but would also have damaged a major...
...their joint mission and of the fact that "we talk 10 times a day." One will say, "Smith called. He didn't like what we wrote." The other will say, "Did you read what the EPA said yesterday... Once they acknowledge that, they're screwed." I have no idea what they're talking about, but everything has the tone of frontline bulletins. Standing beside Kennedy near the bow, I realize he looks like a Kennedy. He has made me forget his lineage until, as part of something else he is saying, he adds, "when my uncle was in the White...