Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Even though Dole sets out to kill his presidency, Clinton is re-elected...
...listen to Hanson's new CD. On the brothers' debut, we gave 'em a pass, partly because they looked like little elves, partly because that song MMMBop was so darn catchy. Now they're older (ages 14, 17 and 19), two have cut their hair (goodbye, elf appeal), and though a couple of tracks are hummable, most of their new songs are more noisy than catchy. No snow day today. These kids should go back to school...
...Americans, rejoicing in an unprecedented period of economic success and celebrating the new horizons opened up by our latest technologies, are likely to embrace the future as a dashing (if unknown) stranger who's appeared at our door to whisk us into a strange new world. Those who travel, though, are more likely to see rising tribalism, widening divisions and all the fissures that propel ever more of the world into what looks like anarchy. Fully 97% of the population growth that will bring our numbers up to 9 billion by the year 2050 will take place in developing countries...
China's current economic growth is brought about by decentralized business forces, not by the state. The conditions of the Needham paradox are ending. As they do, there is reason to believe Chinese capitalism may be especially dynamic. Even though modern capitalism is a Western invention, Westerners are not the only ones who can master it. For cultural reasons, capitalism is in many ways more natural to Asia than it ever was to the West. The devotion to one's task as the hallmark of productive work had to be beaten into a mostly balky peasantry in Europe, even while...
...increase as traditional nuclear threats wane. Monitoring and deterring states are hardly easy, but they pale in difficulty compared with the task of monitoring and deterring obscure and fleeting groups and individuals. Not everyone in our future will have a bomb, of course. If countries really want to, though, a lot of them will still be able to lay their hands on the stuff of nightmares...