Word: mania
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...that Mr. Badger is a Luddite. He merely points out that technology has a mixed record. CB radio was a Toad mania long ago. Technology is sometimes, in the end, a little stupid--as anything must be that was brilliant yesterday but was surpassed overnight--a monster that lives on a hungry, dynamic need for its own obsolescence. The universe of Gutenberg should no more be an abandoned graveyard than, say, the American city, which, a generation after World War II, seemed to be in decline and headed toward extinction. Why did we need the cities when...
Baby Mozart, meet alumni mania. A new series of DVDs for tots features footage of college marching bands and mascots. For budding fans of, say, the University of Texas, there's not only a Baby Longhorn video from Team Baby Entertainment but also a new Mascotopia mobile that plays Eyes of Texas. Toddlers with more literary tastes can drool over mini tomes such as Mascot Books' Let's Go Illini! Early applications, anyone...
...giddiness over Japanese stocks in the late 1980s, the Hong Kong property bubble of the 1990s, euphoria over Chinese red chips in 1996-97 and the mad rise of Thai banking stocks before the carnage of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. Today, as always, there are pockets of mania that could end in mayhem, from the Shanghai property boom to delirious foreign investment in overheated Indian midcap stocks...
...Bebe Moore Campbell: I have a mentally ill family member. So I've been coping with my loved one's disease, which is bipolar disorder, for about nine years. That really opened the door for my learning about mental illness, about 72-hour holds, about mania and episodes, and everything that I touch upon in the book...
...already been introduced to the networking mania on my first day in DC. At an orientation meeting, the three congressional and advocacy group staffers who spoke stressed the importance of greeting as many peoplestaff as well as internsas possible during the summer. Who knows, the staffers said, these contacts might be the key to a job in DC. Youll have a stack of business cards this high, one of them said, putting a considerable gap between her thumb and index finger...