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...when millions of Americans are chained to computers, handcuffed to BlackBerrys and plugged into iPods, something as simple as knowing the current time should be easy. But here's the snag: none of these devices ever seem to sync up with each other. Why is accurately keeping time so tricky...
...know it. (Murdoch's mother Dame Elisabeth is 100.) He has made it clear that he wants one of his children - probably James - to run the show after he exits. This partly explains why he and his loyal and capable No. 2, Peter Chernin, recently parted company. But none of his children loves newspapers the way he does. (See pictures of Murdoch's career...
...mass murder of European Jews and the flight of those who could escape it, often to the U.S. All of this contributed to a shift of the center of scientific progress away from Europe. Some aspects of the great European disaster might have been foreseeable in 1909, but none with any certainty. There are too many futures for them all to be known...
...None of this means everyone's happy. In fact, one of the ways in which Boise reflects a return to local logic is the city's rising foreclosure rate. It hasn't been tricky subprime and Alt-A loans tripping up the folks in Idaho; it's been the flailing economy. At 10.1%, Boise's unemployment rate is above the national average and nearly twice what it was this time last year. As big employers such as HP and semiconductor maker Micron lay off thousands of workers, job losses cascade through other industries and small businesses. If people...
...months, she communicated recipes through phone calls, despite my insistence that none of them could be carried out without a real wok. My little sister visited me last spring and hauled along a suitcase of edibles, which included packets of dried herbs and berries prepared by my mother (and still sitting in my cabinet to this day). Shamefully, despite mastering made-from-scratch pasta sauce and somewhat authentic baklava, I had yet to prepare a proper Chinese meal when I left Boston this summer to spend a month at my boyfriend's home in Germany...