Word: paranoias
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Chambers likes to talk in terms of dog years. One human year is equal to seven Internet years. Even the folks at Cisco admit that in this technological revolution they will have to maintain a state of perfect paranoia to stay ahead. Cisco is facing tough competition in the telecom-equipment business, where longtime powerhouses Lucent and Nortel enjoy established expertise and relationships with key customers. "It's one thing to build a network the size of a corporation," says a skeptic, Nortel ceo John Roth, "but it's another to build one the scale of a whole nation...
...Americans may not follow the lead of our European peers and panic at the mere mention of engineered foods, but science will force us to buckle down over the next few years and formulate a plan for our modified food industry - hopefully one that treads the fine line separating paranoia from complacency...
Some people might call that paranoia. But learning the way to behave with cops has become a rite of passage for black and Hispanic youngsters. Just as parents warn their sons to wear a condom during sex or urge their kids to say no to drugs, now they drill them on the dos and don'ts of dealing with police. It's just a matter of time, many tell their kids, before you are stopped, for no other reason than that you are young and black. "They know it's part of their job bringing up a black or Hispanic...
...have found it to be a wonderful tool in helping my wife mend her sometimes messy ways." Alas, the great ones really are taken.) Alluding to, among other chapters, Mendelson's take on "Peaceful Coexistence with Microbes," Katha Pollitt complained in the Nation that "this is domesticity as paranoia--Oh, no, a germ...
...time, the '70s seemed fairly awful--oversexed in a brainless way, infected by a fatal mix of narcissism and paranoia. Presidents (Nixon, Ford, Carter) seemed either crooked or clueless. Yet, in Frum's analysis, the hideous '70s were a fulcrum and a rite of passage that changed almost everything and brought us, for good and ill, to where we are. He's right. Much has been gained on the journey. But Frum does not sufficiently reckon what has been lost...