Word: reconnections
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...from Mars, the crew of the Mir received some good news of their own as a Progress supply ship stocked with repair equipment finally docked with the crippled space station. Cosmonauts needed the supplies for the repair work they'll do during a spacewalk July 17, when they will reconnect power lines with the station's damaged Spektr module. Also delivered today: the world's worst airline food, some oxygen, fuel and a toothbrush for American astronaut Michael Foale...
...online communication tends to be a dissent amplifier. You say something half in jest; the bad half gets picked up and further inflamed. The next thing you know, war has erupted, and people end up not talking for a year. Rheingold took it on himself to parachute in and reconnect disembodied souls...
...democratic impulse in news is also reflected in the current vogue for "public" or "civic" journalism. Under this philosophy, pioneered by newspapers like the Wichita Eagle and Minneapolis Star Tribune, the news outlet seeks to "reconnect" with its community by taking polls, sponsoring issue forums and seeking solutions to neighborhood problems. For this year's political races in North Carolina, for example, several of the state's newspapers and TV stations banded together to poll voters on what issues they wanted to see addressed, and then focused coverage on those issues. The editors involved argue that this approach has made...
...could easily have refused to meet at all, just claim he had important prior commitments," says Calabresi. Krajisnik, Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic and Croat leader Kresimir Zubak agreed to release all prisoners of war not wanted on war crimes charges, to form an ethnically mixed cabinet, and reconnect phone service between the Serb region and the rest of Bosnia. Most importantly, the men agreed upon a second meeting and set a date for the opening of the all-Bosnian legislature. Afterward, Krajisnik sounded almost conciliatory: "I thought that such a meeting is in the far future, that work in joint...
...message." Among the Doleites, their man is "on message" when he avoids describing the government as "doing a lot of good things," a sentiment the campaign would just as soon have him ditch. "Stayed on message," Dole says afterward, before repeating a pet peeve: "Every time I do that reconnect-the-government-to-values stuff, I feel like a plumber...