Word: rebooted
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...Taiwan, as Mitter says, has a deep sense of Chinese cultural identity (more so than the mainland, arguably) and yet is a "highly modern, liberal democracy." Who knows? The island may yet turn out to be a model for China as a whole. (Read "Taiwan: How to Reboot the Dragon...
...publishing industry is dying for (a lack of) young people and unbiased idea(l)s necessary to reboot the system in this way. Those of us who are considering careers there should only be inspired by the frightening thought that the industry could soon go under. Publishing needs us, if only for the reminder: The pages exist for the words, not the other way around...
...challenge for members of the global street-art subculture. Banksy, the British guerrilla artist, has already sprayed the wall with a few of his ironic creations (my favorite: a little girl in a pink frock frisking an armed soldier). One artist has written CTRL + ALT + DELETE, as if to reboot decades of Israeli-Palestinian mistrust and bloodshed. Another has drawn a giant pair of scissors cutting a hole in the wall along a dotted line...
...then Paramount, giddy from the fumes of a profitable franchise, marched fans through the noble (but sometimes frustratingly static) Deep Space Nine, then the noble (but ever-so-slightly-belated) Voyager and on down into the black night of Enterprise, a well-intentioned but not very noble re-reboot that featured a theme song by Diane Warren (borrowed from - wait for it - Patch Adams) in place of the traditional, lush instrumental opener and, in the holy captain's chair, Scott Bakula (borrowed from - wait for it - Quantum Leap). Not even Jolene Blalock with Vulcan ears could save it. Enterprise became...
Retreat and Reboot I was thrilled to see a front cover of TIME that offered some answers on getting us out of the world's financial mess [Feb. 16]. I believe the first responsibility of every nation is to protect its citizens against long-term unemployment and the resultant poverty. I am not advocating tariffs or large-scale protection from imports but it is important that we maintain employment through restoring our essential manufacturing base, which has been considerably eroded through manufacturers going offshore. Add to this the encouragement of consumers to buy homemade goods and products and if this...