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...fungus on it. Every tinhorn with a chemistry set becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil (the dark impulse to rape or murder, say) and macro-evil (the urge to genocide) achieve an ominous reunion in any bid for the apocalyptic gesture. That's the real evil that is going around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Meaning of Evil | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...fungus on it. Every tinhorn with a chemistry set becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil (the dark impulse to rape or murder, say) and macro-evil (the urge to genocide) achieve an ominous reunion in any bid for the apocalyptic gesture. That's the real evil that is going around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Meaning of Evil | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

...Hitchcock is guardedly optimistic but also acknowledges the risk of Enkhbayar's "big-bang approach," in which so much changes at once. A Western diplomat adds that the country must overcome its habit of merely commissioning papers and gathering endless statistics on every issue: "On a macro level, the government seems to understand the principles of the free market. But it's difficult to see it being implemented on the ground." Still, he adds: "I am convinced that Mongolia can succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under a Broken Sky | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...Singapore's popular expat-heavy Brewerkz, (65) 6438 7438, micro has gone macro. The 840-sq. m brewery, opened in 1997 by the son of a teetotaling Methodist minister, makes 10 different original brews, from Singapore Pale Ale to Oatmeal Stout to Millennium Lager, available in a yard-size glass for a whopping $20 apiece. Like many other large brewpubs, Brewerkz also sells its microbrews in take-out bottles?but only on the premises. "We haven't pushed it to the greater world because I don't want to compete with the 900-lb. gorillas," says managing director Devin Kimble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brews for Beer Snobs | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...They didn’t in any way place the museums in any particular place or describe anything about us…or take into account anything about the museums,” he says. “It wasn’t anything but a very gross or macro look at all of this without any attention to detail...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Arts, Allston Battles Begin | 12/11/2002 | See Source »

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