Word: ruining
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...this: it was 1987 and Dylan was about to embark on a tour with the Grateful Dead when he decided to quit the music business. At that point, he had been mailing in his performances for years; he had even hired backup singers to distract audiences from the tired ruin of his voice. He couldn't even remember the lyrics to his best, most challenging songs, like Desolation Row and Queen Jane Approximately; what's more, he didn't want to remember them. "I'd become a different person since I'd written them," Dylan recalls, "and, frankly, they mystified...
...poet Derek Walcott once wrote, "To change your language you must change your life." Translations can change poems (the Aeneid, for example, has an elegant architecture that's hard to rebuild in English), and translations can ruin movies (who wants to see the dubbed version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?). Shakira is struggling to prove that a person's career can be translated, from one tongue to another, from one country to the next, without changing its essence. After stops in Uruguay, Argentina and the Bahamas, she now resides in Miami, at least for the time being...
Morning came, and everything was changed. The sun rose Wednesday over the absence of a national landmark, a smoldering ruin in lower Manhattan where the World Trade Center towers had stood. In Washington the Pentagon, still on fire, was deeply scarred - along with Americans' collective sense of security. After a day in which terrorists had managed to effectively shut down both cities, suspend all air traffic in the U.S. and force evacuations across the country and in U.S. facilities worldwide, a day in which President George W. Bush warned that "the United States will hunt down and punish those responsible...
Nearly 30 years on, Wheeler concedes that backpackers have helped ruin parts of Asia. "The place I always look at is Kuta beach on Bali," says the 54-year-old Australian. "It was really quite a wonderful place, and I go back now and think, 'What a hellhole.'" His books bear some responsibility, he admits. "We are an influence, there's no question of that, and maybe there wouldn't have been so many backpackers without us." But as visitor numbers climb each year, no one has any plans to stem the flood. Wheeler offers no grand solutions, sticking...
...what basic contract manufacturers did for such old-economy companies as Nike and Sara Lee--relieved them of the gritty business of making things so they could focus on product development, marketing and brand building. What is stunning is that the EMS industry is booming even amid the smoking ruin of today's tech economy. As they acquire their smaller competitors and buy more of their customers' factories--at fire-sale prices--big players like Flextronics and Sanmina stand to emerge from the tech slump stronger than ever...