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...pollution levels of fuel cells, while seemingly their raison d'etre, is also their most damning flaw. A fuel cell is a highly efficient reactor, but is notoriously picky about what it consumes--only pure hydrogen and oxygen...
...denial of the true source of China's human rights abuses. Through this medium, which Jiang and his cohorts are so happy to play upon, China is exoticized and thus exempted from the basic norms of human interaction. It is not Chinese culture, but rather the self-serving raison d'etre of the communist elite that causes the intense and brutal political repression...
That last word, of course, still obsesses the Justice Department's antitrust warriors, whose raison d'etre lies in putting asunder that which the free market hath joined. Industry wags swiftly dubbed Microsoft's Apple alliance "antitrust insurance," and with good reason: spending millions to ensure his rival's very survival should stymie the feds' urge to halt Gates' long march toward market dominance...
...tone civil with big countries like China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Fidel Castro should not expect any change of U.S. policy under a woman who denounces Cuba as an "embarrassment to the western hemisphere." Iraq and Iran will continue to be ostracized by a Secretary who says "their raison d'etre is to destroy the international system." The high-wire act for Albright will be to speak firmly enough to satisfy U.S. critics who charge that trade-conscious Clinton is soft on China but not so harshly that she alienates Beijing. By all accounts, though, Albright's public tough talk...
...supposed to eliminate the great American middleman (not to mention the great American middleman's markup), but it is merely changing his nature. Those Industrial Age intermediaries between consumer and manufacturer--the auto dealer, the record-shop owner, the stockbroker--are giving way to their Information Age equivalents, whose raison d'etre is to help consumers navigate the Web's bewildering oceans of data...