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...exception of Michael Lind's "The Boring Age." We could have moon colonies if it were economically feasible. Because of PCs, advanced linguistics and organizations that care, hundreds of "primitive" cultures are acquiring an alphabet and a written language for the first time. They are leaping into the modern world. Lind is in the Stone Age. Bob Thomas, ELIZABETHTON, TENN...
...already. People are saying: 'we do need this change. We do want to have a different state. We do want to fight corruption.' How do you do that? I think here we don't have to invent the wheel. For example, there are some things we can do which modern technology allows us to do, which makes things much easier. For example: putting every single signature of a public servant, from a minister to the local civil servant on the web, so that people can see where their money goes and what the decisions are. (See the 50 best websites...
...exception of Michael Lind's "The Boring Age." We could have moon colonies if it were economically feasible. Because of PCs, advanced linguistics and organizations that care, hundreds of "primitive" cultures are acquiring an alphabet and a written language for the first time. They are leaping into the modern world. Lind is in the Stone Age. Bob Thomas Elizabethton, Tenn...
...impossible to understand modern Greece without understanding the Papandreous. Three men of that name have led the country since the end of World War II. First there was George, a pragmatic centrist who helped lead Greece out of the Nazi occupation. Then came his son, the fiery Andreas, a flawed but charismatic modernizer who helped democratize corruption and nepotism...
...bankruptcy and forcing through reforms. In the cavernous, colonnaded rooms of Maximos Mansion, where he met TIME on March 29, the Papandreou legacy seems to hang uneasily on the down-to-earth, softly spoken premier. The Apple laptop on his desk, the Prius in the driveway and the bold modern art next to the leather-bound books are small but telling signs of how he is shaking up the fusty world of Greek politics. "I do believe in a few years we'll be proud to say we went through this very difficult time, and we've come...