·TEXT 3 Of all the components of a good night’s sleep, dreams seem to be least within our control. In dreams, a window opens into a world where logic is suspended and dead people speak. A century ago
·TEXT 4 Many things make people think artists are weird. But the weirdest may be this: artists only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad. This wasn’t a
·TEXT 1 In spite of endless talk of difference, American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people. There is the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness a
·TEXT 3 During the past generation, the American middle class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transformed by economic risk and new re
·Higher rates! Bigger fees! In recent weeks, you‘ve heard plenty about the sleazy side of the subprime mortgage business. Rising numbers of borrowers are losing their homes after being lured into hig
·Doughnut adjust your set HAVE you ever seen anything on television that made you shout or shake your fist in anger at the screen? Televisions are, of course, unable to respond to such reactions. But
·Don’t shoot the messenger They poison the mind and corrupt the morals of the young, who waste their time sitting on sofas immersed in dangerous fantasy worlds. That, at least, was the charge levelle
·Declining populations：Incredible shrinking countries During the second half of the 20th century, the global population explosion was the big demographic bogey. Robert McNamara, president of the Worl
·Chain reaction The great manufacturers in the Yorkshire and Lancashire districts tell me that, under modern conditions, they have got into the habit of laying in supply not for a period of two to fiv
·Car retailing If there was ever an industry vulnerable to technological change, it would have to be selling cars in America. For decades a franchise network made up of thousands of dealers has pedd
·Can coal be clean? Coal has several advantages as a fuel. It is abundant. It is widely distributed: countries that are short of other fossil fuels, such as Germany and South Africa, have mountains of
·Buildings with minds of their own What if architects could build living systems rather than static buildings-dynamic structures that modify their internal and external forms in response to changes in
·Bluetooth’s quiet success It was born amid a blaze of hype at the height of the dotcom boom, but initially failed to thrive. Indeed, Bluetooth, a shortrange wireless technology used to interc
·Biometrics gets down to business For many people, biometrics conjures up images of a Big Brotherish surveillance society. But tell them they could save a few precious seconds at the supermarket chec
·Behold, the bus of the future It looks rather like a futuristic stretch limousine, but its actual function is rather more populist: the Superbus is a novel publictransport system being developed in
·Behind the bleeding edge MANKIND’S progress in developing new gizmos is often referred to as the march of technology. That conjures up images of constant and relentless forward movement orchestrated
·Aircraft emissions: The dirty sky All big ideas start life on the fringes of debate. Very often it takes a shocking event to move them into the mainstream. Until last year interest in climate change
·A meaty questionNO.3 IF YOU have ever longed for a meat substitute that smelt and tasted like the real thing, but did not involve killing an animal, then your order could be ready soon. Researchers b
·A fuzzy picture THIS is a really exciting time-a new era is starting, says Peter Bazalgette, the chief creative officer of Endemol, the television company behind Big Brother and other popular shows.
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