Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was something oddly charming about the geeks who made up the first wave of Internet entrepreneurs. Social misfits pounding out code in their computer-science labs--these people deserved professional success. But after the Wright Brothers, you get Frank Lorenzo. And so this summer Silicon Valley was flooded by the Second Wave: fast-talking business-school grads whose interest in technology is limited to how it will make them money. This is Silicon Valley in the IPO age. Geeks are history; they're all capitalists now. Netscape founder Marc Andreesen stars in a Miller Lite...
...camp in San Francisco and made regular reconnaissance trips into the Valley, meeting major players as well as ancillary characters. Ratnesar and Stein got rare access to start-ups so new they are still hiding behind fake names. And our reporters did not neglect the Valley's peculiar social scene."What was most striking was how consuming the start-up life is for many of these people," Ratnesar says. "They can't--won't--talk about anything else...
...Kafkaesque critique of an industrial world filled with poison-spewing factories and desolate, ruined people. Its harrowing music, for better or worse, established Reznor and his band, Nine Inch Nails, as one of the few fresh voices rock has produced since Kurt Cobain. But in the view of some social critics, its X-rated imagery made Reznor the spiritual sire of school violence and corrupted youth...
...dynamic effect is most obvious in Hata's ties to his long-dead comfort woman and his troublesome daughter. Both are objects of his care and devotion. Both cause him plenty of discomfort. How Hata handles his past and the constant tension between social acceptance and his chronic sense of not belonging finally have little to do with his origins. Chang-rae Lee, whose first novel, 1995's Native Speaker, announced the arrival of a new talent, makes sure of Hata's humanity by giving him an inner life independent of ethnicity and suburban status. But the contrast between Hata...
Extreme sports are mostly solo pursuits that fail to teach the valuable lessons of traditional sports--teamwork, cooperation, good sportsmanship and collegiality. Is this social progress? AMY HOPKINS Guilford, Conn...