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...deprived and the vulnerable. The fact that famines occur only under authoritarian rule and military dominance, and that no major famine has ever occurred in an open, democratic country (even when the country is very poor), merely illustrates the most elementary aspect of the protective power of political liberty. Though Indian democracy has many imperfections, the political incentives generated by it have nevertheless been adequate to eliminate major famines right from the time of independence in 1947 (the last famine was four years before that, in 1943, which I witnessed as a child...
...what--exactly?--will she actually do? Circa 2010. She will be at home. Working--for the next several months--for Ford on a fiendishly difficult engineering problem. She won't be on Ford's payroll, though she will be drawing full benefits, even as a contractor. (During President Hillary Rodham's second term, health care, pensions and retraining will no longer be tied to a company but to the individual.) Her 79-member project team, only one of whom she's met face-to-face (she considers face-to-face a quaint idea that her mom suffered), comes from...
...that though my "house" is in Vermont, I've hung my professional shingle in Palo Alto since 1981. All hell is breaking loose "out there/here." These folks may sound weird, but they may also be redefining the world. And speaking as a 57-year-old, "they" don't look or eat or taste or smell--or work--much like Frank Peters or George Babbitt or Dilbert...
...such thing as a sure thing. How we feel about what we carry in our pockets says an awful lot about what we carry in our hearts and our minds. Last year a coalition of 11 European countries rolled out a brand-new currency called the euro. And though euro coins won't be available until January 2002, the currency has proved a loser on foreign-exchange markets, where it is traded electronically. Continental bankers hoped the euro would compete with the dollar as an international currency of choice. Instead, the euro has fallen more than 20% against the dollar...
...commercials that are the most interesting part, though: the really important advertising is hiding in plain sight on the field. The Microsoft Mustangs are playing the GM Generals at Cisco Stadium in a town called Ciscoville--formerly known as Philadelphia. Corporations will pay big money for the right to digitize logos onto the T shirts of the fans in the stands. Logos of sponsors won't be painted on stadium signs or on the field anymore. Thanks to a trend that is already happening, they'll be digitally embedded in the image on your screen. The logos you see will...