Word: popularizers
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...Greater concern for the environment and climate has created a need for greener transportation that has so far gone unfilled. High-speed rail fits the bill; according to Popular Mechanics, high-speed trains emit, on average, 40 percent less carbon per passenger-mile compared to cars and 55 percent less carbon compared to jets. The popularity of trains in Japan and Europe has taken millions of cars off the roads. The result is less congestion and less air pollution...
...course, even if high-speed rail were to become a popular mode of transportation in the United States, there would still be significant demand for car and airplane travel. Nevertheless, high-speed trains would relieve airport and highway congestion by providing a competitive alternative mode of transportation. Fewer cars on the road means less traffic for those who choose to drive. Airlines will offer far fewer short-haul flights, which reduces the number of delays and frees up runway space for the long-distance flights that train travel cannot compete with. Best of all, a shift toward rail travel eliminates...
...theaters, and you still have to take an eye test to see the movies. Putting on glasses, even the Ray-Ban type now handed out in theaters, does not remove barriers to the appreciation of movies (as director Peter Jackson insists); it is a barrier. Imagine the popular resistance to the first talkies if audiences had to don headsets to hear Al Jolson sing "Swanee." What would the odds on the success of three-strip Technicolor have been if people had to wear specs to see Gone With the Wind or The Wizard of Oz, or the 99% of movies...
Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America By Julia Angwin 268 pages; Random House...
...finished, assumed a distinct character? We all knew and know what "the '50s" mean, and they definitively ended with the Pill, J.F.K.'s assassination and the Beatles - just as "the '60s" ended when Americans got tired of being alarmed and hectored, and "the '70s" ended when stimulants became more popular than depressants and AIDS appeared. But in all salient respects, "the '80s" - Reaganism's reshaping of the political economy, the thrall of the PC, the vertiginous rise in the stock market...