ViewPoints: A new reckoning?
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In &quot;The Reckoning,&quot; his masterful 1986 book on the US auto industry, the journalist David Halberstam criticized the Big Three automakers - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - and their unionized workers for complacency and shortsightedness that he said
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Sometimes what we think is true doesn't measure up to the facts. The outdoors is full of conventional wisdom that was passed around the campfire then passed down from one generation to the next. Some of this hand-me-down knowledge is accepted as fact, even when it shouldn't be.
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Does the trend signal a break with the industry's tradition of considering itself above reproach?
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âGive people the vision and hold them accountable, but let them do it their own way.â
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Let the past put current conditions in perspective.
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By Lindee, Susan  REBECCA M. HERZIG, Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. ?+194. ISBN: 0-8135-3662-6.
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Solving the world's environmental ills may mean re-thinking the role of nations and national governments.
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Letter: Analysts observation not exactly earthshaking.
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About this time last year, I wrote a column following up on some pieces I'd written earlier to see what if anything new had happened to those topics. The reaction I heard afterwards convinced me that revisiting old news was a worthwhile exercise -- in general, it's too easy for tech reporters to lose sight of how a product works over time in the real world, as opposed to a brief trial in a reviewer's hands.
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Joel Barker wrote an interesting book entitled, "Paradigms:The Business of Discovering the Future". Originally written several years ago, I find it relevant today. In his book Barker has more of an interest in how we think about the future than making predictions. read more
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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Comment is free: Neal Lawson: The challenge is to seize the initiative and create a new public realm that enables a more equal world to take shape.
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Six commentators give us their opinion on how the world has changed since 11 September.
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In this edition of Perspective, we&#39;ll take a look at some of the issues at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation or APEC Summit in Chile.
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Taking a look back a few years can be unreal. Things change so often that it can be hard to fathom the paths of life that take place.
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Suppose that the pessimistic forecasts of global warming are accurate. Suppose that the planet's temperature rises according to the high-end scenario of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and that we experience the economic and social impacts (like hunger, malaria and coastal flooding) projected by the much-publicized Stern Review sponsored by the British government. [...].
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Sharper Image stock may be worth a look at current levels.