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...Quynh Kieu, the chairperson of Project Vietnam, says that the low cost and relative simplicity of the technology will play a key role in its spread to rural areas...
Imagine a women’s right to choose callously stripped away by five reactionary men in black robes. Four sane judges and the rest of the country watch in horror. Privacy and personal freedom are quickly curtailed, while back-alley abortions and needless deaths spread like wildfire. Thus the bleak future predicted by many on the left if Roe v. Wade is overturned...
...Tipping Point, Gladwell's first book, was a study of the unexpectedly viral ways that ideas, trends and fads spread through the general population. In Blink Gladwell takes as his subject the snap decision. Why, he wants to know, do intuitive, unconscious, seat-of-the- pants judgments, made in seconds on the basis of very little information, so often turn out better than better-informed, more thoughtful choices...
Delta is also making major changes to its operations. At its home base in Atlanta, the airline is overhauling its entire schedule, hoping to limit future flight disruptions and delays. The airline will add 81 more flights and seven new destinations from Atlanta, but will spread all the flights out more over the day. It's a late Christmas present, but a welcome...
...Most foreign correspondents roll through the Middle East for at most four or five years, and usually only a few months. By the time they start to sense the superficiality of most news coverage in the region and to understand the way historic injustices spread their tentacles through every layer of society, it's time for them to move on to another posting. I've been in Jerusalem eight years, working first for The Scotsman and for the last four years for TIME, and I'm still here...