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...likely to get diluted by political haggling and could end up doing little to create jobs. The jobs summit achieved only a minimum of agreement on Germany's economic future, and much of Schröder's package seemed like tinkering. He offered new tax breaks to small- and medium-sized companies, and proposed rules that would let the unemployed take jobs while retaining some of their benefits. He also said he'll spend €2 billion over the next four years on infrastructure projects like autobahns and railways. But there is one plank of Schröder's platform...
...while that isn’t always true, it’s accurate enough of the time to make its continued existence a crucial one. For just over ten years, the one-room art gallery and performance space has acted as a laboratory for artists in nearly every medium...
...this paradigm shift lie the seeds of revolutionary change. The Internet is a two-way medium. Although it is delivered on a glowing screen, it isn't at all like television. It's not one-to-many, like traditional media, but many- to-many. It doesn't work in couch-potato mode. And as Canter and Siegel discovered, it doesn't take kindly to in-your-face advertising...
...anyone planning to update the program in the future, explain that, “by posting content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.” Frightening words, indeed...
...deadly concealed knowledge, of espionage and counterespionage, the terrible prize of which was the secret of the power to destroy the world. The Saturday Evening Post still gave Americans a Norman Rockwell version of themselves as an essentially lovable and virtuous people. The first programs in the new medium of television worked the same vein. But the war--as war always is--had been a violent exploration of the possibilities of human nature. Technology had expanded the possibilities in the direction of apocalypse. Americans asked what they always ask about themselves: Are we a good people or a bad people...