Word: virtually
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Method Painting. Last of his father's five children, Andrew Wyeth was born into a virtual factory of fantasy. N.C. spouted Shakespeare as he dosed his children with castor oil, encouraged them to set up toy theaters all over the house, and persuaded them well up into their teens that Santa Claus did indeed exist. But his greatest gift was teaching his brood how to re-create drama, and a little art colony sprang up by the Brandywine...
...result has been a transition unlike any other, a virtual co-presidency whose continuities include a shared commitment to fiscal stimulus on an unprecedented scale. Obama's tacit collaboration with an unpopular predecessor offers the strongest evidence yet of his sincerity in wanting to change the brutish tone of official Washington. It's a safe bet his ride to Capitol Hill will be far more civil than the ghastly Hoover-Roosevelt procession. And that's change we can all believe...
...point is, specifics really matter. And when specifics get left to Congress and the states, they tend to get screwed up. Politicians love to cut ribbons for new roads; repairs don't have the same bringing-home-the-bacon oomph. Most state transportation departments have become virtual asphalt factories, and most states have laws preventing the use of federal transportation dollars for anything but roads. Yet Congress keeps writing the states blank checks, lavishing the most cash on the ones that do the most driving and paving, actually mandating that federal officials "shall in no way infringe on the sovereign...
...While Hamas rockets pummel southern Israel and Israeli bombs decimate Gaza, a parallel war is being fought in virtual communities. On Dec. 27, two hours after Israel began its military operation, Joel Leyden created a Facebook group called "I Support the Israel Defense Forces in Preventing Terror Attacks from Gaza." Leyden, an American who served with the Israeli military, says he has since received dozens of death threats via his Facebook inbox. "People were not just saying 'I hope you die!' but also asking, 'How do you want to die?' " says Leyden, who uses Facebook to alert people about potential...
...public about Gaza. For Facebook and other social networks, "the struggle ... is to find ways to create an environment that encourages truly meaningful dialogue," says Amy Bruckman, an associate professor at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Until that happens, a cease-fire is not likely in the virtual world...