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...active technologies helped Philippine and Seattle protesters redeploy themselves on the fly. Peter Ackerman, an expert who studies the non-violent overthrow of repressive governments, believes that high-tech concepts like smart mobs offer potentially powerful frameworks for political resistance, because the process of organizing takes place under the radar of their governmental opponents and is therefore harder to suppress...
...believe al-Qaeda has effectively adapted to the new reality, further dispersing its already diffuse structure. The President's "known leadership" phrase may be telling: Many of the terror plots currently gestating in secret cells all over the world may be being nurtured by operatives not yet on the radar screens of U.S. or allied intelligence. And there's no shortage of new recruits these days from throughout the Muslim world, ready to sacrifice themselves to harm the U.S. Some of the attacks over the past two years appear to have been centrally coordinated across national borders - the most difficult...
...movie becomes ho-hum by Hollywood standards and the public is continually bombarded with the couple, comeback, blockbuster or breakup of the moment, it seems almost a prerequisite for a celebrity to engage in fashion expansion just to get an audition for a spot on the pop-culture radar...
...sure, some economic indicators have been perking up, including stronger retail sales, corporate profits and manufacturing activity. But these could easily prove to be just a blip on the radar. After all, only weeks ago it was the D word--deflation--that was giving traders nightmares. Even Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has publicly fretted over the prospect of the country succumbing to a Japan-like malaise with falling prices, though he says the possibility is remote...
...graphic novel yet again thanks to the film American Splendor, which is based on the autobiographical comic book by Harvey Pekar, who writes about life as a hard-luck, sad-sack, hospital file clerk in Cleveland, Ohio. He's no superhero: the only flying he does is under the radar...