Word: logical
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...call.” At around 3 p.m. a colleague called the Daniloffs’ house and informed Ruth that an American correspondent had been arrested. The friend, it turned out, was actually a KGB informant. Daniloff’s capture and subsequent release followed the tit-for-tat logic of the Cold War. He was arrested the week after a Soviet physicist working at the United Nations was charged with spying against the United States. And Daniloff was only freed after a complex series of negotiations resulted in the release of Daniloff, the Soviet agent, and several other Soviet...
...occurred to me that only someone who's never downloaded music, or someone who doesn't read, could imagine a direct correlation between the tracks of a recording and the paragraphs of a book. Comparing word snippets to playlists is cynical propaganda, or at best an error in logic that could only be made by a person who doesn't love and live with them both: Elitist and wrong, or ignorant and wrong, depending on your point of view. Musical playlists, like film soundtracks, are about using songs to create an aural atmosphere, a soundtrack for life. Listeners want...
...line between public and private is blurry to many youths, who see MySpace as a safe haven. Justine Cassell, a psychologist at Northwestern University, says, "Kids have an egocentrism. They believe they can see others and others can't see them." Trench isn't sure the logic is that complex. "I hate to insult kids," he says, "but they don't think...
...Europe, where probiotics are well established, see the segment as a major driver of growth over the next few years. "Yoplait will understand the success of Activia and follow soon," says Dannon CEO Juan Carlos Dalto. It's not every CEO who invites competition, but here's his logic: "You don't need only one company doing the job--you need the two or three leading brands...
...This is a fantasy realm so fully and elegantly realized, it might be the adaptation of a classic novel. Yet the source is Del Toro's own capacious imagination. The inverted logic of a child's dreams rarely has had such a secure equilibrium. And it is brilliantly visualized by Guillermo Navarro's cinematography, a severe symphony of dark shades in the house, more dramatic color contrasts in the labyrinth...