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...seismic changes Deng set in motion were daring, thrusting one-fifth of mankind in a Great Leap Outward from the crushing, dogmatic isolation of Maoism into a quasi-capitalist economic miracle. The China that comes after Deng will grow inexorably from the complex of roots he planted firmly in the nation's soil. Yet his work is unfinished, and the next China will have to come to terms with the fundamental contradiction in his hybrid creation. Even as the country embarked on a headlong pursuit of free-market economics, Deng insisted it be done under the iron fist...
...task of monitoring not just one peak but hundreds worldwide, though, is impossible to say, but the question is becoming pressing. "Someday," says Robert Tilling, chief scientist of the USGS Volcano Hazards Program, "one of these mountains will erupt on a scale many orders of magnitude greater than mankind has ever seen...
...report on Bill Gates, Walter Isaacson provided insight that has given us a new perception of the man [BUSINESS, Jan. 13]. Gates, apart from his lack of emotional empathy with mankind and his ruthless business prowess, is the intellectual thinker for modern-day society. He knew what he wanted and was determined to achieve it. Instead of being a victim of circumstance, he turned events to his purpose. That's why he is today the ceo of Microsoft Corp., the world's richest man and perhaps the modern-day Napoleon of the technological world. But I wonder, Is Bill Gates...
...fascination with Gates lies chiefly in his financial success and less in his achievements, which history will prove are of negligible importance. The key issues that face mankind will still be decided by human beings, not computers. The alleged power of the Web and the Internet are nothing more than a high-tech yuppie myth promoted by a relative minority. MARK TERRILL Wacken, Germany...
...Analytically, I would say nature has done a good job making child raising more pleasure than pain, since that is necessary for a species to survive. But the experience goes beyond analytic description...Evolution is many orders of magnitude ahead of mankind today in creating a complex system. I don't think it's irreconcilable to say we will understand the human mind someday and explain it in software-like terms, and also to say it is a creation that shouldn't be compared to software. Religion has come around to the view that even things that can be explained...