Stepping back a little from the frenzy of the daily headlines and looking back over 10 years of breathtaking change in the world's social, economic and political landscape since the tragedy of the 9/11 attacks, it seems to me that we really are living through revolutionary times.
For institutions that can feel much like their counterparts from a thousand years ago, universities have witnessed breathtaking change in just a handful of years.
I return time after time to Kabul, because like the breathtaking changes I see in nature in Southern California, so too do I see amazing changes in Afghanistan.
This analytical perspective combined with Ms. Schneider's formidable acting skills made for a concert that had many breathtaking changes of pace as she went in and out of different characters, assuming a stumbling Betty Boop insouciance for a song like "Broadway Baby" (from "Follies"), then becoming a madcap socialite in "Uptown, Downtown".
If he has lost a yard of acceleration, and maybe his breathtaking change of pace with the ball in his stride, he has gained craftiness.
Twenty months of sometimes breathtaking economic and political changes in Myanmar under the civilian government of President Thein Sein have touched only a sliver of the country's 55 million people, those tracking the process of change say.
The changes in the G500 aren't really breathtaking: new style, updated sensor… that's pretty much it.
The central bankers and economists gathering there the symposium of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, an annual meeting of the macroeconomic elite that start on Thursday August 30th face a similarly breathtaking, if less beautiful, change in the global financial topography.
The project, "Growing Up Lost in Appalachia," is now the first installment of an exploration of his generation's experiences growing up amid high unemployment and breathtaking technological change.
It is true that this mega-event might be the best opportunity ever for its host to show off its breathtaking progress in economy, social changes and China's can-do spirit.
