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...During the late 1980s, historian Paul Kennedy popularized the notion of "imperial overstretch." It was a variant on Walter Lippmann's notion of "insolvency" in foreign policy, when a country's resources simply cannot underpin and sustain its ambitions. Some, like Kennedy, saw this happening to the U.S. in the 1980s. As a result, they predicted an "American decline...
During the late 1980s, historian Paul Kennedy popularized the notion of "imperial overstretch." It was a variant on Walter Lippmann's notion of "insolvency" in foreign policy, when a country's resources simply cannot underpin and sustain its ambitions. Some, like Kennedy, saw this happening to the U.S. in the 1980s. As a result, they predicted an "American decline...
...president, surveying the company's prospects. "It's looking better than even five months ago. The world economy is picking up again." After three years of stagnation, Germany is finally taking its first tentative baby steps toward economic recovery. So far, there are few definitive statistics to support the notion that the entire economy is growing again. But the vignettes feel like they're attaining a critical mass. METRO Group, the country's largest retailer, for example, forecasts sales will rise 5.5% this year. Porsche sold 60% more sports cars in Western Europe in July than it did a year...
...director Fabien Baron sketched what he calls a nomadic instant-communication panel, left, which provides voice communication, interactive chatting, Internet access and movies, TV and games while in transit. "It's a connector, a medium and a refuge," says Baron. "The ultimate stimulus for our nomadic generation." Taking the notion of cell phone as appendage, architect David Rockwell called on the tattoo for inspiration and created a voice-activated Patch Phone, right. "It addresses how to connect the phone to a person's body, not in the cyborg-implant kind of way but similar to a nicotine patch," says Rockwell...
...1920s the Surrealists attempted to claim him as a forebear. Chagall demurred. He wanted no part of the Surrealist notion that art flowed from the dictates of the unconscious. What Chagall believed was that art flowed from his whole self, from his memories and desires. Let the world fly apart under his brush; he was always the master of his own revels...