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Apple recently unveiled its iPhone to much hoopla. Along with rave reviews for Steve Jobs’ labor of love have come a new spate of reports in the media blaming Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) for everything from causing Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) to ruining marriages. A recent Forbes article was even entitled “Is Your BlackBerry Ruining your Sex Life?” These reports have been targeted at members of the workforce—from the up-and-coming attorney to the Fortune 500 CEO—yet have failed to account for the newest class...
...practitioners of the dismal science might crow. "Economics beats politics any time." The mighty dynamics of expansion seem to bear them out. So does the history of the first globalization, from 1850-1914. There were lots of small wars then: the Crimean one, the wars of German unification, a spate of long-forgotten battles over the Balkans, skirmishes from one end of Africa to another and throughout Southeast Asia. Yet international trade and investment prevailed over protectionist sentiment...
...Pats!” outside of the postseason—are probably somewhere between the odds that Iraqis will spontaneously gather in the middle of Baghdad and start singing “We are the World” and the odds that this winter’s spate of warm weather isn’t related to global warming...
...very few are aware of that other great flowering of Khmer architectural genius-namely, the New Khmer Architecture that emerged in Phnom Penh amid the heady national pride that followed Cambodia's independence from France in 1953. Building Cambodia documents the tragically short-lived style that resulted in a spate of striking buildings until its demise amid civil war and genocide not two decades later. Taking seven years of research to complete, and packed with rare photographs and illustrations, the 334-page hardback pays tribute to this remarkable cultural interlude when King Norodom Sihanouk abdicated the throne to personally oversee...
...fire extinguisher—a nearly identical incident took place next door in Eliot’s D entryway the previous Saturday. Some residents expressed anger at the decision of the police, claiming that their extension of the ban beyond L entryway was retribution for the recent spate of false alarms. Paul B. Davis ’07, a resident of J entryway in the Annex, wrote on the Kirkland e-mail list that the actions of the police were a “childish and unprofessional effort at collective punishment.” He added that...