Word: phenomenon
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They awakened by the hundreds at an hour when even most undergraduates had long since gone to bed. Although it was frosty outside, they huddled in courtyards, on beaches, and on rooftops, hoping to see a once-in-a-lifetime astromonical phenomenon...
Workplace experts are only beginning to grasp the phenomenon. "In the information age, knowledge is critical to business--and it's the employee who owns it," says Hamilton Beazley, 58, chairman of the Strategic Leadership Group, a consultancy in Arlington, Va. Beazley coined the term ghost work--now catching on around the country--to describe the additional workload taken on by surviving employees, usually without their former colleagues' trove of knowledge. "It's as if they're suddenly asked to start speaking Greek," says Beazley. "It can be totally demoralizing and can cripple the individual as well as the organization...
PLAYING WITH FIRE In Mekong Full Moon Party, this year's surprise Thai hit film about the Naga fireballs, a hapless television journalist is desperate to expose the phenomenon as a hoax. A month after the movie's October release, Thai television station ITV screened a documentary claiming that the fireballs were merely AK-47 tracer rounds fired by bored Lao soldiers on the opposite bank of the river. Mere coincidence? Or are strange, dark forces at work...
...from Bangkok and is appalled at the commercial exercise the festival has become: full of crass city slickers getting drunk, brawling and gambling. As he struggles with his faith, he falls for A-Lit, a pretty schoolteacher whose scientist husband is determined to prove the fireballs are a natural phenomenon. Bak Khan wants to expose the charade, especially as the TV crew seems to be closing in on the secret. But his former abbot tries to convince him that there could be merit in fake miracles...
...Wind Sing. "That was one of the happiest experiences of my life," he recalls. "Perhaps the happiest." A decade later came the momentous publication of Norwegian Wood. Until then, the psychomysteries that formed the bulk of Murakami's work had done well but not spectacularly. Norwegian Wood was a phenomenon. A coming-of-age novel set partly in a college dorm, it was more accessible than anything he had written before-or since-and the Japanese version sold almost four million copies. Suddenly, the shy author was besieged by editors and fans. Like many of his protagonists, he dealt with...