Word: cheapness
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...much the same for the past 50,000 years or so, we humans have utterly transformed our environment. Over the past century especially, technology has almost completely removed physical exercise from the day-to-day lives of most Americans. At the same time, it has filled supermarket shelves with cheap, mass-produced, good-tasting food that is packed with calories. And finally, technology has allowed advertisers to deliver constant, virtually irresistible messages that say "Eat this now" to everyone old enough to watch...
...thanks to mass production, all that food is relatively cheap. It's also absurdly convenient. In many areas of the U.S., if you had a craving for cookies a century ago, you had to fire up the woodstove and make the dough from scratch. If you wanted butter, you had to churn it. If you wanted a steak, you had to butcher the cow. Now you jump into the car and head for the nearest convenience store--or if that's too much effort, you pick up a phone or log on to the Internet and have the stuff delivered...
...economy and longstanding government policies are based on providing plentiful, cheap - and often low-quality food. That needs to change...
...rebar-stiff newsreaders intoning stilted copy supported by cheap graphics. The channel was "essentially a translation service for Chinese-language programs," Terenzio says. But CCTV International did have one small advantage: the English-language broadcaster is unintelligible to most Chinese, so its journalists enjoy slightly more reporting leeway. In one of his first moves, Terenzio called a meeting to stress that "reporters never say what they think, only what they know" and to urge that all government statements be attributed to their source, standard practice in the West. Within two weeks, "they were practically attributing the weather report," Terenzio says...
...number of immigrants allowed into the country. And before the European Union admitted 10 new members last month, Germany and other E.U. states insisted that workers from the accession countries should be barred for up to seven years from holding jobs in Western Europe. Fearing the effect of cheap labor on already high unemployment - and damage to Germany's Christian heritage - politicians from the conservative opposition claimed that Germany was "not a country of immigration." So it comes as a pleasant surprise that Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is suddenly rethinking that view. Last week he agreed on groundbreaking...