Word: paradoxical
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...distract important men into giving her confidential records. It's rare that women can reap the benefits of men's objectification of them without suffering some of the drawbacks too. Ms. Brockovich took a lot of risks, and for her, it paid off. But for most women, the eternal paradox of feminism kicks in: In order to be safe from the aggression and oppression of men, we need to lose our femininity and become like them, thus subjugating ourselves all the same...
Since the age of steam, the European labor movement has mustered red flags and brass bands on May Day for a traditional show of strength. But this year, post-May Day, Europe faces a labor paradox that Karl Marx never foresaw. While 15 million people are registered as unemployed in the 15-nation European Union, millions of jobs still go begging for lack of qualified applicants...
...cars you can fast-forward through those boring long drives on the interstate. Zzzap! There goes Nebraska! Better yet--say it's 2025 and you're driving to Atlantic City or your mother-in-law's or a Jim Nabors concert. Just flip a switch, and the Zeno's Paradox-based, drive-by-wire, fuzzy-logic antidestination override feature cuts in to make sure you never get there...
...figured I'd be.) If you're like the overwhelming majority of boomers, your career has hit a brick wall, you haven't saved enough, your pension is underfunded, your health is deteriorating, even the medical advances that will probably extend your life will, in an especially cruel paradox, probably mean that late life will be meaner and more spartan. You'll have a hard time selling the house that you considered your nest egg (the generation behind just won't have enough buyers). And your neighbors' children, simultaneously burdened with the cost of your aging and victimized...
China's current economic growth is brought about by decentralized business forces, not by the state. The conditions of the Needham paradox are ending. As they do, there is reason to believe Chinese capitalism may be especially dynamic. Even though modern capitalism is a Western invention, Westerners are not the only ones who can master it. For cultural reasons, capitalism is in many ways more natural to Asia than it ever was to the West. The devotion to one's task as the hallmark of productive work had to be beaten into a mostly balky peasantry in Europe, even while...