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James Fallows
American
Journalist
Born:
Aug 2
,
1949
Am
Being
People
Time
World
You
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Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
James Fallows
Angry
Anger
Enemies
Write
Mail
Never
Always
Them
Your
Letters
There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
James Fallows
Environmental
Problems
Environmental Problems
Longer
Surprise
Any
China
Noting
Grave
Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
James Fallows
You
Rich
Think
Relatively
Those
More
Countries
Economy
Contrary
Efficient
Than
Polluting
China
Might
Rich Countries
Less
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.
James Fallows
You
Find
About
Had
Since
Am
Still
Friends
Person
Going
Company
Media
Now
Founding
Levels
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.
James Fallows
Life
Me
My Life
Latest
System
Computers
Simplify
Over
Been
Led
Lotus
Very
Order
Automated
Fan
Agenda
Sucker
Each
Palm
Bring
Early
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.
James Fallows
Needs
History
You
Differences
Way
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Similarities
Never
No-One
Because
Learns
Always
Fit
Same
Current
Themselves
Really
Choices
Choose
Ever
Present
No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.
James Fallows
Success
Human Being
Job
Presidency
Range
Attributes
Human
Being
Full
Necessary
Brings
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.
James Fallows
War
People
Stage
Guided
More
Had
Disaster
Decade
Decently
After
Public
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Who
When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.
James Fallows
People
Thought
Living
Signals
Picking
Obvious
Make
Read
Learned
Because
Were
Command
Up
Often
Being
China
Them
English
Whose
Things
Kept
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.
James Fallows
People
Problem
World
Own
Earth
Emissions
Most
Also
Just
Burned
Biggest
Anywhere
China
Chinese
Coal
Now
Carbon
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.
James Fallows
World
Prosperity
Power
Country
Other
Changes
Everyone
Unless
Corporate
Out
Status
Economic
Price
Toward
Removing
Knows
Real
Begins
Going
Move
Chinese
Realm
Among
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
James Fallows
Worms
Giant
Ongoing
Opening
Am
Trademark
Reform
Discussion
Patent
Current
Explicitly
Copyright
Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.
James Fallows
Everyone
Collapsing
About
Infrastructure
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.
James Fallows
Dreams
World
Father
Made
Joke
Out
Obama
Could
Writer
Had
He
Literary
Barack
Barack Obama
Worked
Based
Differently
Things
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