Word: utopia
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...cream, yoga--even the fresh flowers that once perfumed the loft offices. It wasn't enough. In a last-ditch effort to hold on to her staff of 40, she asked her partners to swallow a 20% pay cut and other workers to forgo 10%. "It's not a Utopia; we have our good and bad days," she says. But business is picking up, no one has left, and their kindly yoga instructor even donates her time. Says Tanaka: "She says we need it now more than ever." --With reporting by Leslie Berestein/Los Angeles, Elizabeth Coady/Chicago, Collette Parker/Atlanta, Eric Roston/Washington...
Upon reentering Harvard Square, Teddy explained that the Square is an urban utopia for the unshoed. The classical sidewalk construction technique of using individual red bricks oriented side-by-side, which is so common in and around the Square, leaves tiny gaps that serve as useful repositories for meddlesome glass, rocks and rusty nails that could spoil an otherwise lovely barefooted jaunt...
...TECH-UTOPIA...
Nozick was best known for the critique of the welfare state that he offered in his highly influential first book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick argued that the size of the state should be as small as possible, favoring Libertarian policies that do not interfere with individual rights...
...exchanges, village administration offices, bridges, clinics, dams, irrigation and drinking-water projects?and the homes of the "people's enemies" are being leveled. Their aim, the Maoists admit, is to achieve Year Zero, a reference to the Khmer Rouge genocide that was to clear the way for a socialist utopia. "At first, we just wanted to destroy all the government institutions in the village," Junge Kuna village leader Ghopal Phandari, 23, told me deep in rebel territory in Dang. "But then we decided to block any access to the villages by blowing up bridges?one time...