Word: basics
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...lifelong student of the American comic strip, Schulz knew the universal power of varying a few basic themes. He said things clearly. He distilled human emotion to its essence. In a few tiny lines - a circle, a dash, a loop, and two black spots - he could tell anyone in the world what a character was feeling. He was a master at portraying emotion, and took a simple approach to character development, assigning to each figure in the strip one or two memorable traits and problems, often highly comic, which he reprised whenever the character reappeared...
...Technology may open up doors, but it has no answer for some problems. China is already waist-deep in this global economy and may be about to make the final plunge, but that won't necessarily help it resolve such basic challenges as providing clean drinking water to its population a decade from now, let alone maintaining social order. And the intelligence community is under no illusion that all that China needs to stave off chaos is democracy - after all, the combination of democracy and a frog march to a market economy turned Russia into a gangster's paradise, while...
...countries such as Saudi Arabia create a fertile pool of recruits for the likes of Osama Bin Laden. The demographic and economic projections noted in the report threaten to turn some of the Arab world's cities into impossibly overpopulated hubs of discontent, dramatically under-serviced by such basic infrastructure as drinking water and sewage. Their population is likely to be young, hungry, sick, disillusioned and very, very angry. And that's going to create enormous pressure on some of today's more moderate Arab regimes, and on any peace agreements they may reach with Israel...
...hangers." Since the shop window is close to the street, Vaughn gets to take lots of mental style notes. The East Village influence is found in the attention to detail, be it a faux fur collar, a tapestry print or a funky button. Each collection highlights the basic black to which she finds her customers are strongly addicted...
...therapies are emerging from two extraordinary decades of intense basic research, a fantastic voyage that scientists are taking into the heart of the cancer cell. "The life and death of cells is being worked out, and the dozens and dozens of molecules in the body that participate in those pathways are now becoming targets for therapy," says Alan Houghton, a medical oncologist and immunologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in Manhattan...