Word: vacuums
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...spiritual matters, as in economics, supply rises to meet demand. Into the country's leadership vacuum has stepped an eccentric mix of charismatic characters professing to have a hot line to God or a shortcut to enlightenment. According to religious scholars, there are some 2,000 "new religions" in Japan. They include Ho No Hana Sanpogyo, which urges the worship of feet, and Life Space, a group whose leader claims that he doesn't need to eat, bathe or sleep because of his superhuman powers. He is now serving a 15-year prison sentence for murdering a follower and keeping...
...Rival companies are racing to build more specialized machines. Matsushita, maker of the Panasonic brand, has developed a vacuum-cleaning droid with powerful dust sensors, while Sanyo is working to commercialize a remote-controlled guard dog equipped with a digital camera and mobile phone. Sony has taken a slightly different approach. While Honda researchers pursue the holy grail of the film Bicentennial Man?a mechanized butler?Sony's vision is closer to the sci-fi movie A.I., which features a boy-bot that offers unconditional robot lovin'. The company has sold more than 100,000 of its toylike AIBOs since...
...Given the fact that the union leadership was not really playing a constructive role on the Harvard campus...I think that students stepped into that vacuum,” says Libby Devlin, director of higher education for SEIU Local 254. “The leadership role was critical to the success of the campaign and was a key reason why the workers have now stepped up and taken over their organization...
...apathy that stems from this absence of real debate, from the reluctance to engage ideas, creates not so much a “center” as a vacuum. Positions are chosen, not because they are believed in, but because they are politically comfortable. Perhaps this is why the most active voices in national politics today seem to arise from the radical fringe, from the Christian Coalition or the people in turtle suits—those who show “commitment” and hold Truth on their side. The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full...
...even as the Palestinians battle over internal reform and the Israelis lock horns over the shape and timetable of a final political settlement, the security vacuum threatens to eclipse all of those discussions. Indeed, the continued potential for terror attacks inside Israel and for a large-scale IDF retaliation suggests that the current calm may simply be the lull before the next storm...