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...danger, if this trend continues, is that people will withdraw within their walled communities and never venture again into the Internet's public spaces. It's a process similar to the one that created the suburbs and replaced the great cities with shopping malls and urban sprawl. The magic of the Net is that it thrusts people together in a strange new world, one in which they get to rub virtual shoulders with characters they might otherwise never meet. The challenge for the citizens of cyberspace -- as the battles to control the Internet are joined and waged -- will...
...There is a trend of people taking breaks that are longer than they should be,” says the anonymous walker. “Some people take more than others. I think people who have been doing it for a while, since they’ve been doing it for so long, they don’t take it as seriously as the younger ones...
...infamous for being clubby, insular and resistant to outsiders, especially foreigners. But urgent commercial realities can alter the most ingrained management mind-set. There's been a recent series of surprising changes at the top of well-known regional companies. It's too soon to call it a trend, but there appears to be greater willingness to shake up corporate habits by bringing in outsiders, at least among a handful of companies that compete in fast-moving global markets...
Rachel Lea Fish, director of the David Project’s New York office and a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School, says that the issue at Columbia is part of a nationwide trend...
...subject of pop music, Rybeck noted an increasing trend of pop-theater hybrid shows à la Mamma Mia or Movin’ Out, counseling students to become savvy in this new crossover style. Prince insisted that such changes were only evolutions in a perennially relevant art form, saying that musical theater was still “part of our American heritage...