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...prosperity and open societies. It was that ideal that brought my Holocaust-survivor grandparents through Ellis Island in 1949 in the hopes of rebuilding their lives and finding better opportunities for their 3-year-old daughter - my mother. These ideals have too often been trampled by greed or myopic self-interest. But the positive impact they have had on the world cannot be denied. Asia has risen to new heights of wealth and power partly because of American policy, consumers and corporate practices. As Singapore's patriarch Lee Kuan Yew once told me, "Without the United States providing security...
...world has been too quick to dismiss the U.S. Its political culture, though chaotic, allows for the vigorous debate that leads to self-correction, while Americans remain unparalleled in their ability to innovate. That's why the U.S. is still a beacon of hope and opportunity. The number of professionals with advanced degrees who became permanent U.S. residents in fiscal 2008 was eight times greater than...
Steve Brooker, 6 ft. 5 in. former professional skateboarder, sub-3-hr.-marathon runner, survivor of multiple strokes and the self-appointed tutelary spirit of the Thames, thinks he has found something. To me it looks like mud, but I'm not in a position to argue. Brooker, 48, is a member of the Mudlarks, a society of amateur archaeologists who are licensed by the Port of London Authority to scavenge the banks of the Thames for historical artifacts. Because of Brooker's oversize frame, his talent for major discoveries and his overall awesomeness, he is known by admirers...
Qualys aims to increase the depth of its vulnerability-scanning services, reaching further into networks by auditing servers that host and operate certain Web applications for self-propagating virus programs known as malware. It released a special QualysGuard module in April 2008 to achieve this objective. After a series of acquisitions this summer, an improved version will probably be forthcoming in the next 12 to 18 months. "Because of the Internet, the enterprise network is disappearing, and companies need to be ready to protect what's left," Courtot forecasts. Security as a service, it turns out, is a pretty legit...
Besides, the constant effort of maintaining optimism in the face of considerable counterevidence is just too damn much work. Optimism training, affirmations and related forms of self-hypnosis are a burden that we can finally, in good conscience, set down. They won't make you richer or healthier, and, as we should have learned by now, they can easily put you in harm's way. The threats that we face, individually and collectively, won't be solved by wishful thinking but by a clear-eyed commitment to taking action in the world...