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...great platform, of course. What's new here is that it's possible for any number of them to succeed. "Among the things that are different from the old status quo is the idea that one will win," says Marc Andreessen, who helped write the first widely adopted browser, Mosaic, which popularized the Web. The Internet is a much larger playing field than PC operating systems. "Trying to decide which will win," Andreessen adds, "is kind of like debating whether beef, chicken or lobster is going to win the market for food...
That quest for identity is ever present. Is Israel a Jewish state or a state for Jews? Is religion more important than national identity? Examined closely, Israel more resembles a mosaic than a real country: the black-hatted ultra-Orthodox are at odds with the beach boys of Tel Aviv; the Jews who fled Europe feel superior to those who flooded in from North Africa and the Middle East; the latecomers--Russians (many of them not practicing Jews) and Ethiopians--are still struggling to fit in; and the Israeli Arabs, who constitute 20% of the population, complain that they...
...actually possible to understand the difference in online habits between Democrats and Republicans. We start with a survey of 35,000 Americans by Simmons Market Research Bureau, which tagged political affiliation along with other interests. The survey, along with other data, make up what's called a "mosaic," - segmentation of Americans grouped into 50 sections by similar behavior, interest and political affiliation. We can apply those segments to online activity to understand the difference between Democrats and Republicans...
...very much of it. The North Koreans, to say the least, are control freaks. Hordes of government minders immediately surrounded us on the tarmac as we waited for the orchestra's music director, Lorin Maazel, and his musicians to have a group picture taken in front of a beaming mosaic of the Great Leader. The minders, whose forced conviviality didn't hide the tension in their faces, would not leave our side until about 44 hours later, when we got on a flight out of Pyongyang...
...place for myself. The North Koreans, to say the least, are control freaks, and hordes of minders immediately surrounded us on the tarmac as we waited for the orchestra leader, Lorin Maazel, and his musicians to follow us down and take a "class photo" in front of a beaming mosaic of the Great Leader. The deputy minister of culture, Song Sok Hwan, stepped forward to greet Maazel - Monday's money shot for the cameramen among us - so as one they surged forward to surround the two men, leaving the spot where we all had been instructed to wait...