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...stay optimistic about business and companies' abilities to change with record-high unemployment? We tend to get faked out sometimes by the particular moment that we're living in, whether it's a boom or a bust. If you take three steps backward, you'll realize that the trajectory of things is generally positive. It's not in one smooth upward slope. It involves some pain along the way. But in general, the future is better than the past...
...party era seems like a more propitious moment for media stars as politicians precisely because they are outside government. We live in an era when--after the best and brightest got the housing bubble, the banking crisis and Saddam's WMD capability wrong--official, expert authority has been discredited...
...phobia of some kind or other. It doesn't take much to set mine off. A swig from a water bottle can do it, or someone chewing gum. Every morning when I get on the subway, I scan the passengers like an air marshal looking for terrorists. At any moment, somebody could whip out a bagel or a danish. I do well in restaurants, where there's a lot of ambient noise and distraction, but one-on-one meals are a minefield. And don't get me started on popcorn. When I go to a movie theater, every movie...
Call it the desegregation of the megachurches - and consider it a possible pivotal moment in the nation's faith. Such rapid change in such big institutions "blows my mind," says Emerson. Some of the country's largest churches are involved: the very biggest, Joel Osteen's Lakewood Community Church in Houston (43,500 members), is split evenly among blacks, Hispanics and a category containing whites and Asians. Hybels' Willow Creek is at 20% minority. Megachurches serve only 7% of American churchgoers, but they are extraordinarily influential: Willow Creek, for instance, networks another 12,000 smaller congregations through its Willow Creek...
...quantum computer in Brisbane takes up two square meters, and the researchers felt an “interesting parallel” between this moment and the early days of classical computers, Kassal said. Performing innovative calculations on such a large piece of machinery made them feel like the scientists of 60 years ago, who were using computers to crack codes or fire artillery in ground-breaking ways...