Word: revolutionize
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Compared with predecessors Mao and Deng, he enjoyed an easy revolution, and he had a far more worldly upbringing. "I wouldn't describe him as a closet Western-culture buff," says Kenneth Lieberthal, a China scholar at the University of Michigan, "but he has a more appreciative attitude than many...
Cuba-based artists, who are considered ambassadors of Castro's revolution, are frequent targets of exile wrath. When jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba performed in downtown Miami in April 1996, a crowd of 200 demonstrators spat on concertgoers as they tried to enter the theater. Three months later, a few days...
Greene, who describes himself as "stuck on snakes," believes they deserve a better rep. A collector since he was a seven-year-old in rural Texas, he sees them as far more interesting biologically and aesthetically than even fellow scientists once thought, and his research on snake behavior has helped...
Computer scientists, like the characters in Russian novels, tend to fall into two camps: the optimists and the pessimists. The pessimists grouse in books, at industry conferences and to every journalist in sight that the computer revolution has gone about as far as it can go. They argue that the...
Still, McCaffery believes, small investors will have their day. "If you create more demand," he says, "you should have an impact on price." If 10,000 Little Guys keep collectively offering $14 for IPOs whose syndicates are offering $12, wouldn't IPO candidates start urging their underwriter to give small...