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...York City filters" -- techniques for surviving in a densely populated network and for sorting E-mail that arrives at the rate of 400 pieces a day. Others use "bozo filters" and "kill files" -- lists of individuals whose past behavior has convinced Internet users that their lives will be richer and much saner if they never read another word those bozos write...
...also has much wider matters in mind, like happiness, family and work in a world in which life is a brief interval before the extinction of death. "I don't believe in God," McEwan explains softly. "But the world is just as warm, as rich, if not warmer and richer, when seen without a religious point of view." And just as menacing. While driving to his regular squash game, thinking of the dinner he will cook that night to celebrate the return of his grown daughter from France, Perowne has a small collision. The other car is driven...
HARNESS GLOBAL SCIENCE. New technology has led directly to improved standards of living, yet science tends to follow market forces as well as to lead them. It is not surprising that the rich get richer in a continuing cycle of growth while the poorest are often left behind. A special effort should be made by the powerhouses of world science to address the unmet challenges of the poor...
...Grand Master Flash because it made you seem quirky. And in 1980, at 9 years old, after the U.S. defeated the Soviet Union, I chose hockey. Not so much to be patriotic but because I saw it as a personality opportunity. One that would pay richer dividends than my poorly thought-out gambit of collecting puffy Smurf stickers.
...gets unlikely top scores. The World Values Survey published by the University of Michigan last November ranked 82 countries and territories according to feelings of "subjective well-being"?which combined its happiness and "life-satisfaction" scores?and the Philippines had one of the highest ratings in Asia, above far richer locations such as Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. A few years back, a Hong Kong ad agency found the Philippines to be the happiest place among a group that included Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and mainland China...