Word: stuffs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wanted to write a book that was intentionally not apocalyptic. Apocalypse means destruction and the whole world ends. That's kind of scary and depressing, and usually the people who read books like that are the ones who are already into that stuff [and want] to get more detail or affirmation for what they already believe and fear. I wanted to write a book that was going to reach a much wider audience...
...wrote a book in which...something has already happened and we're already dead. ... I say, "Let's assume we're already gone, but now having cleared us away, we get to see what happens next." ... We get to see how nature would deal without us heaping more stuff on it every day, including stuff that we build and pump up our chimneys, and how it would deal with all the stuff we left behind. Part of that is fun - [seeing] what it takes for New York City to turn back into a forest. And the other part...
...think we can survive and will, and could do it in a manageable way. But until we start taking steps, people will be more and more frightened about what we're facing - and that's why you're seeing this spate of end-of-the-world stuff...
...have evolved to complement its neighbor, says Michael DeGolyer, a professor at Hong Kong Baptist University who has studied relations between the city and its mainland economic hinterland. "What Shenzhen ports have been doing is straight-through shipment," DeGolyer says. "You fill a full ship with Wal-Mart stuff, and it goes straight to the U.S." That has left Hong Kong's port - which is managed by Hutchison Whampoa, the same Hong Kong conglomerate that operates Shenzhen's - to concentrate on more logistically complex operations, including breaking down containers for shipment to multiple destinations. DeGolyer says the overtures toward Hong...
Keep that in mind when listening to those presidential candidates talk economics. By the time one of them takes office a year from now, this year's slump will probably be history. It's the other stuff that he or she might actually be able to do something about...