Word: tells
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...Middle East to the increasingly bulbous Jamieson in Manhattan, understandably fretful that her beau might die before her baby is born. Spurlock's rationale is that he's got to at least try to make sense out of this crazy geopolitical mess we're in, so he can someday tell his child he did his best to fix it. But his real goal is what occurs to many men on hearing their about to become fathers: flight! The film is an adventurer's version of a boy's night out, and Spurlock trumps it up as a mission to justify...
...neither an unsatisfying nor inaccurate story, but these days it sounds old-fashioned because globalization is rewriting the tale. Asians are still emigrating to America, but many are returning to Asia, pursuing the same wealth and advancement that America once exclusively offered. In fact, it's increasingly difficult to tell Old and New Worlds apart. With their coffee chains and street-fashion boutiques, malls in Mumbai and Beijing are polished facsimiles of those in the U.S., and when half the world is tuned into reruns of Friends, or The Simpsons, who actually suffers from culture shock anymore...
Climate leadership will come not from this President but from the next. So how will voters be able to tell which candidate is going to take real action? If there's a canary in this coal mine, it's the policy known as cap and trade, an idea Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp calls a "silver bullet." Where do the candidates really stand on cap and trade--and how does it work, anyway...
...gauge its own security prospects. But over the past few months, Canada has been quietly embroiled in one of the most revealing political and international-security debates since the end of the cold war. It's a debate critical to the future of NATO. And its outcome may tell us a lot about the fate of the U.S.'s struggle against terrorism...
Engagement is an amorphous concept, but as anyone who ever worked on a team can tell you, it's critical--the unengaged undermine--even if it's tough to pin down. Gallup says the top driver is direct managers; Towers Perrin says interest and vision coming from the executive level are much more important...