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...their friends on Friend Connect sites. So, in my real estate blog example, if I installed a Wall app (just like the one on Facebook) people could comment on stories. However, those comments would only be visible to their friends; if a user didn't sign in, they wouldn't even see the Wall...
Back in the 1970s, Hayden's argument wouldn't have been surprising. That era, which saw the birth of the modern environmental movement (the first Earth Day was observed in 1970), was obsessed with the idea of global limits, that without drastic intervention, we were doomed to overpopulation. Books like Paul Erhlich's The Population Bomb warned that the Earth was reaching the end of its carrying capacity, and that within decades, hundreds of millions of people would starve to death. The only way to avoid this Malthusian fate was rigid population control, which many environmentalists were in favor...
...barrel, you can bet you could hear a pin drop in the room. But what exactly was he talking about? Iraqi Shi'a militias invading Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, burning their oil fields, driving the price of gasoline up to $10 a gallon and us into a depression? Crocker wouldn't elaborate on his vague warnings, preferring to leave it at a sense of dread...
...were that great in the first place. They felt crude and overwrought and underthought to me, and maybe as if Frey were just a little too proud of what a thorough mess he'd made of his life. Yes, he violated the unwritten contract between writer and reader. I wouldn't blame anybody for being mad at him. I just wasn't that invested...
...something. And now he tells me the most important lesson from jujitsu: "Never, ever turn your back to someone." And right then I realize that even though one of the writers I most admire in all of history is in better physical and intellectual shape than I am, I wouldn't trade places. I'd rather be mugged by Shakespeare than walk backward through life...