Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promise you've ever heard about digital technology sounds even more beguiling in China. The country has 350 million children to educate--what better vehicle than interactive television? The Finance Ministry needs to establish bank and savings accounts for China's 284 million workers--what more effective solution than smart cards? Agricultural planners dream of more productive Chinese farms--how better to send weather and agro-science information to 323 million farmers than over...
...these benefits, China has embarked on a series of nine "golden projects" that will shotgun state-of-the-art technology into every field from health care to finance. By 2010 hundreds of millions of Chinese will be wired to the Golden Bridge financial network, carrying Golden Card smart cards and automatically forking over a chunk of their salaries to the government via a microchip-enabled Golden Tax. Says Bryan Nelson, Microsoft's commanding general in the region: "China is going to be the ultimate proof of all that the Internet can do. And the amazing thing is, the Chinese seem...
...soberly inspirational way Deep Impact embraces the conventions of the old-fashioned disaster movie. You find yourself hoping that when Armageddon arrives, somebody as sensible, humane and good-fatherish as Morgan Freeman is in the White House; that the demographically useful teenager who discovers the threatening comet is a smart, plucky puppy like Elijah Wood; that somebody as down-home and dutiful as Robert Duvall is commanding the space mission charged with diverting the asteroid from its deadly path. We could probably do with fewer of ambitious TV reporter Tea Leoni's problems with her wayward...
These two are not the only men of country enamored with smart women. Another all-male group sings tribute to the "angel in the choir loft./She's got her daddy's money, her mamma's good looks," but that alone isn't enough to make her the "deadly combination" she is: she's also got a "wild imagination [and] a college education." Just to clarify, fun-loving, well-educated women are still "country as a turnip green...
Strong, determined, and smart is sexy... Harvard women, it's about time to go country...