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...Paradigm has become a buzz word for theorists of the emerging world. The term, from the Greek paradeigma, means an example, a model, a pattern. People in business schools, in think tanks, in the White House, use paradigm as a sort of reality thresher -- a way of comparing past and present, an implement for sorting out history at a moment of tumbling global change. Paradigm is a buzz word that does not sing, of course, but never mind. Buzz words, being often tricky, insincere or brainless, are part of the Old Paradigm anyway...
...term paradigm, however, is useful, like a Swiss Army Knife. The world, with a surreal, decisive crispness, has been sorting itself into categories of Old Paradigm and New Paradigm. The 1990s have become a transforming boundary between one age and another, between a scheme of things that has disintegrated and another that is taking shape. A millennium is coming, a cosmic divide. The 20th century is an almost extinct volcano; the 21st is an embryo...
...view from space also offers support for a scientific theory that is becoming the paradigm of the new environmentalism. First proposed by British inventor and chemist James Lovelock, this theory, called the Gaia hypothesis, argues that the earth functions as an organism and that life processes regulate the planet to maintain its habitability. According to Gaia, no single species, not even humanity, is necessary to the functioning of the biosphere...
...NASTY GIRL. A Bavarian schoolgirl starts poking into her hometown's Nazi past and becomes the local scourge. Michael Verhoeven turns social satire into exhilarating comedy. And Lena Stolze is a perky paradigm for young Germans unafraid of old demons...
...arguing that it was the best compromise that could be achieved. But as soon as the plan was presented, the Administration, House Speaker Tom Foley and minority leader Robert Michel promptly found themselves absorbing fire from left, right and center. The plan's Medicare component immediately became one paradigm of the scheme's vulnerabilities. Loreen Gephardt, 81, mother of the House majority leader, seemed to speak for the 33 million other Medicare recipients when she urged her son to leave Medicare alone. "I would rather he wouldn't touch Medicare, because we were already paying pretty much and not getting...