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  • The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

    Air   Cities   People  
  • It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.

    Real   War   Years  
  • The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material to present each of his protagonists in a convincing, respectful, but unsparing way. Even more valuable, he has used the interactions and tensions between Paul Nitze and George Kennan to bring much of American 20th century foreign policy to life, with human richness ever present but with the big issues clear in all their complexity.

    Book   Ideas   Issues  
  • No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

  • Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

  • Considering all the different ways in which China has interacted with the world in the last 50 years, considering all the challenges ordinary Chinese people have to put up with, it's beneficial and, and, by any rational standard, non-threatening to have national energies channeled into this kind of competition. It's touching to see so many ordinary Chinese crowds cheering for their new heroes.

    Cheer   Hero   Years  
  • For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

    War   People   Vietnam  
    "As We Near the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War" by James Fallows, www.theatlantic.com. March 1, 2013.
  • Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

    Beautiful   Order   Fans  
  • I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

    Patents   Reform   Giants  
  • I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.

    Sarcastic   Needs   Faces  
  • Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

    Fate   People   Society  
  • The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once.

    Military   Party   Names  
  • When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync - you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.

    "The Danger of Free Google Software" by Orion Jones, bigthink.com.
  • A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.

  • I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.

    Media   Google   Levels  
  • The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.

  • I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.

    Boston   Phoenix   People  
  • The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

    Dream   Father   World  
  • Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

  • In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

    Transition   World   Way  
  • Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

    People   Chinese   Coal  
  • For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

    Air   Safety   Water  
  • I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.

    Two   Google   Afar  
  • Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.

    Country   Real   Moving  
  • Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

    Anger   Writing   Enemy  
  • The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

  • No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

    Jobs   Real   World  
  • Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

  • If you didn't know better, you might have thought in 2003 and 2004 that U.S. government strategy was being set by people trying to make enemies rather than friends in the Arab-Islamic world. And if you didn't know better, you might think that the Chinese government's approach to the Olympics is being set by people trying to make the country look bad.

  • Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

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