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...unified marvels. Let us ask ourselves if too many hours haven’t already been fed to the idol of Facebook in place of hearty dinners with friends. How many much-needed moments of solitude are drowned out by iTunes, or conversations are shattered by shrill ring tones? We should, of course, buy and enjoy our armadas of gadgetry, but not forget that they all come with an “Off” switch, and no natural law commands us to keep them ever next to our hearts. Perhaps a day at Harvard shorn of cell phone, iPod...
...That globalist warning bell may ring true in Davos, but in Thailand, ground zero of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, economic protectionism is on the rise. "There are several members of the coup Cabinet who believe Thailand is too dependent on foreign investment," says Supavud Saicheua, head of research at Phatra Securities in Bangkok. "They believe it's their duty to fix things before global economic trends negatively affect Thailand." In a country where the King is widely revered, the junta's Cabinet has shrewdly tied its closing-door strategy to an existing royal mandate. After the regional financial meltdown...
...fault, but many students feel that the measures taken in response to the false alarms are less than fair to those who are uninvolved. After an extinguisher was sprayed in Lowell basement during September, an entryway tutor claimed that, in retribution, the firefighters allowed the alarm to ring for half an hour longer than was necessary and refused to allow students to return to the entryway that night. In November, a similar evacuation of approximately 450 Eliot House students spiked tempers. Passions ignited after a firefighter went on a tirade on a loudspeaker after the incident, threatening that if anybody...
...surviving artists from comics' golden age; in Muskego, Wis. Nodell got the idea for Green Lantern on a New York City subway when he noticed an engineer holding out a lantern. "It was green, which meant things were safe," he said. Infusing elements of Greek myth and Wagner's Ring operas, he created a flying good guy who draws his powers from a magic ring made from the remains of an ancient green lamp...
...emotional crowd had gathered to protest for the survival of their country. A reporter in Kinshasa, capital of the Congo, commented on rumors that King Albert II had fled to the former Belgian colony. A crowd waved Flemish flags behind the live reporter at the Flemish Parliament. The ring road around the capital, Brussels, was blocked, NATO headquarters on red alert, and police controls thrown up along the border between Flemish-speaking and French-speaking regions. A parade of prominent politicians and public figures opined on the grave development, and there was even a report of julbilation among Catalans keen...