About Face International http://aboutfaceintl.org Changing the world through Youth Social Entrepreneurship & Discussion. Tue, 04 Jan 2011 06:00:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Suicide bombers have much to teach http://aboutfaceintl.org/2011/01/04/suicide-bombers-have-much-to-teach/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://aboutfaceintl.org/2011/01/04/suicide-bombers-have-much-to-teach/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 06:00:43 +0000 About Face International http://aboutfaceintl.org/?p=3658
The career of a suicide bomber lasts only an instant. When he presses the button a flash of incandescent light turns a Nobody into a Somebody, even if he happens to be an incompetent Somebody.  <<<To read full article, please click here.>>>
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When Apple opened a new store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in 2006 it received an unusual complaint. Not the usual New York variety—you’re blocking the view I paid good money for, or you’re gentrifying the neighbourhood I just discovered. No, this new flagship store was criticised by an Islamist website.  <<<To read full article, click here.>>>

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Where on earth is the United States headed? Has it lost its way? Is the Obama effect, which initially promised to halt the souring of its global image, over? More seriously, is it in some sort of terminal decline?  <<<To read full article, click here.>>>

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It has become a symbol of conformity. “Suit” was the chosen insult of hippies to describe a dull establishment man. The garment has been ostentatiously rejected by Silicon Valley titans like Steve Jobs of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sergey Brin of Google.  <<<To read full article, click here.>>>

]]> http://aboutfaceintl.org/2011/01/01/suitably-dressed/feed/ 0 Still Think Texting While Driving Is a Good Idea? http://aboutfaceintl.org/2010/12/31/still-think-texting-while-driving-is-a-good-idea/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://aboutfaceintl.org/2010/12/31/still-think-texting-while-driving-is-a-good-idea/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:00:01 +0000 About Face International http://aboutfaceintl.org/?p=3647

As New Year’s Eve approaches, prepare for a cavalcade of drunk driving PSAs. But AT&T has put together a heartbreaking and fascinating documentary on a different kind of road menace—texting while driving.  <<<To read full article, click here.>>>

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We all know how things turned out, of course. An angel appeared, together with a ram, letting Abraham know that God didn’t really want him to kill his son, that he should sacrifice the ram instead, and that the whole thing had merely been a test.  <<<To read more, click here.>>>

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The people of the central Asian nation of Karakalpakstan are being driven out by two of the 21st-century’s biggest challenges—ecological disaster and resurgent nationalism.  <<<To read more, click here.>>>

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After his divorce from his first wife, Nicolas Sarkozy was so distraught that during an official trip to Morocco, he offended his hosts by constantly slouching and flashing the sole of his shoe in the direction of the King. Prince Andrew made a buffoon of himself at a dinner party.  <<<To read full article, click here.>>>

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Do you think that there is a computer screen sitting in front of you right now?  It would certainly seem so if you are reading these words online, but in fact you are not actually “seeing” the computer screen in front of you.  <<<To read full article, click here.>>>

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Economic history looks, in graphic representation, like a hockey stick. For tens of thousands of years we traced nasty, brutish, and short lives along the shaft. Children anticipated a world no different from their grandparents’.  <<<To read full article, click here.>>>

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