Word: centralization
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...allow the New York City police to get away with blaming their failure to act in the Sunday assaults on women in Central Park on concerns about rogue policing [NATION, June 26]. There is no cause-and-effect relationship between the recent high-profile incidents of excessive police force and the cops' failure to respond to the besieged women's pleas for help. This behavior is the result of an insensitive, poorly trained police force. And why do New York City police officers think an appropriate response to criticism about how they do their job is just to stop doing...
People who carry weapons generally use them only in self-defense. Why don't more women carry guns? One shot could have stopped the Central Park idiocy and done the rest of us a favor. DAVID DONEY Hoffman Estates...
...Research and development is somewhat of a misnomer in Japan," says Robert Lewis, former associate director of the Tsukuba Research Consortium, a hub of high-tech companies in central Japan. "Most of the money goes to improving an existing product, not to basic research." Even when an inventor comes up with a hot product, the country's strong ethic of subordination of individuals to groups holds sway. Take the case of Aki Komikado, an unassuming sales-and-marketing employee who invented the Tamagotchi digital pet in 1996. The toy craze earned her employer, Bandai, $350 million, but Komikado didn...
Visualize this: Timothy Draper, the gonzo venture capitalist from Silicon Valley, swoops into a South Central Los Angeles church to preach the gospel of school vouchers to a group of black ministers. He is introduced--by his own advance man--as "an instrument of God's hand, like Rosa Parks." Never mind that this is a 42-year-old multimillionaire preppie known to ski in boxer shorts and throw Frisbees at conferences, who even dressed as Batman to inaugurate a Manhattan office. Today, Draper tells the assembled pastors, he is ready to spend at least $20 million of his fortune...
...creating what she has dubbed a "regenerative park" to capture the horror and the beauty of its industrial legacy. "New parks aren't all that different from the tradition of [Frederick Law] Olmsted parks," says Bargmann, 42, referring to the architect of New York City's Central Park. "Olmsted was actually constructing places that were part of urban life. Our culture is now one of postindustry. Parks need to express that aspect of our culture...