america
Lunacy can grip America, but it passes - Einstein's insight in 1954
Posted on Wed, 2008-06-18 13:36Albert Einstein was as slow to understand the American polity as he was brilliant at physics. But just before his death he wrote to his
son Hans Albert: "God's own country becomes stranger and stranger... but somehow they manage to return to normality. Everything, even lunacy, is mass produced here. But everything goes out of fashion very quickly." (Unfinished letter dated 1954-12-28)
This from the brilliant biography by Walter Isaacson:
ITSA: John Collins out
Posted on Fri, 2001-01-05 07:53ITSA: John Collins out
Originally published in issue 53 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jan 2001.
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Subjects:firing sacking change CEO
STANDARDS: CEN Blitzkreig thwarted by Pacific allies
Posted on Mon, 1997-11-03 11:00STANDARDS: CEN Blitzkreig thwarted by Pacific allies
Originally published in issue 21 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Nov 1997.
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Subjects:DSRC CEN e-toll standards Germans
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