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...annual $11 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development alone. Since 1951, the United States has provided Nepal with well over $2 billion, but Shah remains highly critical of the uses that money has been put toward--in particular, of what he considers idealistic attempts to transform native institutions into prototypes of American ones. "Why should we give up our traditions to come up to some criteria which you have set for us?" he complains. "It is industrialized nations who are setting these criteria--$1000 per capita income, T.V. sets, cars, If we were to define the criteria...
Toffler deals in what he might call meta-cepts. He divides history into three waves: the agricultural, the industrial and a rising Third Wave, driven by computer technology that threatens to transform the way most of the world lives and thinks. It is a world of "info-spheres," "techno-spheres," "biospheres" and "psycho-spheres." A Third Wave society would be "de-massified" by computer-controlled factories that retool easily and make standardization obsolete. The traditional financial ties between producers and consumers would be altered to create "prosumers" who could make and maintain goods for their...
...limited to a few evil "others" who are consciously aware of a malicious intent. The fact is that most racists--and bigots in general--are well-intended, friendly, good people. They hope that Blacks/Gays/Asians/Women/Chicanos get their rights. But as long as they refrain from actively attempting to transform their attitudes toward and assumptions about various oppressed groups, they will be providing de facto support for a maintenance of the status...
...answers questions with physical enactments and stand-up impressions, Burton found. "He thinks with his body and voice as well as his mind." When asked to explain the process by which he created the anonymous voice of Chance the gardener for the film Being There, the actor "began to transform himself into a computer," Burton says. "He pretended he was a machine reading a tape of several voices and rejecting one after another until the right voice registered." Over the course of the interviews, Sellers managed to imitate human voices as well, ranging from Lord Snowdon's uncle...
There are quacks on every hand but, praise God, bona fide men of God make up your "Stars of the Cathode Church." Power? Yes-the power of God released daily to transform lives...