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...Harry C. Boyte Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 Information Age Populism by Harry C. Boyte “The world is deluged with panaceas, form ulas, proposed laws, machineries, ways out, and m yriads o f solu­...

... of social behavior. Naturally, the technology that supports information-gathering and analysis is quite new. But government surveillance has often been intense; before electronic eavesdropping was available, neighbors were enlisted to spy on each other and report to the intelligence-gathering bureaucracy...

.... region the in peace for need the affirm call to a as recited be could names together with some bare information about their situations. their about information bare some with together in February, action Army Israeli by killed...

...David Sterritt The Informant! Warner Brothers , 2009 District 9 , TriStar Pictures , 2009 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 CULTURE [ F I L M ] Erin Brockovich are good examples...

... but not for a particular disease are already irritated that the Internet has given us so much that has no cure, like Alzheimer’s. Francis Collins, the new information about our health conditions and treatments that Director of the National Institutes for Health, undertook they don’t have enough time to answer all...

... promises to revitalize the media, the country is poorly informed, polarized, and marinated in lowest-common-denominator fluff Wand junk. Without a new direction in media policy, progressive and peaceful resolution of the many other serious problems...

... or mall. Further, some mobile phones collect and store an average of twenty pieces of information per customer, including the person’s age, gender, race, income, health, travel patterns, interests, purchasing his­ tory, and whether she or he has children. Using these data, smart­ phones can...

... and look for records of our ancestors’ arrivals. This got me excited, as I’ve always longed to know more about previous generations of my family. Especially on my father’s side, such information is scarce, since everyone has eternally been at war with everyone else: the only way bloodshed has been avoided...

.... ELEVEN PM! I’d be lucky to get to my hotel by 3:00 AM the next morning at that rate. After a cross-country flight and no sleep I would be a wreck for my presentation the next day. When I informed the twenty-something kid...

... univer­ increase the demand for health care, driving up its cost Increasing sal coverage if it doesn’t adversely affect their own situation—are health care quality by requiring all hospitals and physicians to shift getting nervous about the 1,000 pages of congressional legislation to information...

... incapable of withholding information. This knowledge was also used to inform elements of the U.S. Military’s SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) program, which trains service members and civilians in the art...

... Jewish practice, locates the issues in universal terms informed by the latest feminist scholarship as well as by a deep knowledge of Jewish texts...

... shift on the rent Israeli policy of home demolition, willingness to interrupt a seemingly end­ part of most Americans would be to simply Halper argues that this policy is only com­ less cycle of retaliation by a refusal to con­ become better informed about important prehensible as an act...

...Native American Health Center “Native American concepts of difference are informed by the interdependent structure of traditional Native American communities,” the author writes. ...

... memories: We can reason. In its two major forms, convergent and divergent, reasoning is the most essential means of solving the problems that confront us. Convergent reasoning involves an assembly of known information and results in a so­ lution within the realm of what is already known. Most...

... foraging habits were based on info-scarcity, but suddenly, like Mickey Mouse as the sorcerers apprentice, we find ourselves trying to survive an info-glut, and the scarcest resources have become attention and control over our own time. The Swedish scholar of information technology Thomas Eriksen has...

...DNA does a good job of explaining how genetic information is reproduced, but not how individual organisms constantly respond to their environment. ...