Word: turning
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...Obama can turn a feel-good moment into improbable changes in our discourse, he might be helped by something that helped him pull off an improbable win: the Internet. It's true that new media have helped polarize politics by creating echo chambers of agreement. But the kind of social media the Obama campaign used, like Facebook, also help people broaden their spheres and see how they are connected with people who are different from them. And they're popular among the same young people who are turned off by the old political dualisms and categories...
...true: saying you were a self-published author used to be like saying you were a self-taught brain surgeon. But over the past couple of years, vanity publishing has become practically respectable. As the technical challenges have decreased--you can turn a Word document on your hard drive into a self-published novel on Amazon's Kindle store in about five minutes--so has the stigma. Giga-selling fantasist Christopher Paolini started as a self-published author. After Brunonia Barry self-published her novel The Lace Reader in 2007, William Morrow picked it up and gave...
...path to prosperity--deregulated, American-style capitalism. And there was one central destination for a poor country seeking the investment and aid it needed to travel down that path: Washington. The U.S. and its allies could dangle big financial carrots to get countries to do what we wanted--and turn the screws on those pariahs who held...
...Marshall Plan--style effort to fight poverty and terrorism in failing states like Pakistan and Yemen. But finding the money is going to be much harder today than it was a few years back. And putting tough conditions on that money will be harder too, since poor countries can turn to China and get cash with fewer strings attached...
...Taiwanese employment website. Especially hard-hit is the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park, Taiwan's version of Silicon Valley, where more than 90% of the world's notebook computers, motherboards and cable modems, to name a few leading products, are made. It's also where most U.S. companies turn to subcontract manufacturing of their high-tech goods. (See the worst business deals...