A Chinese academic friend tells me that the success of the Olympics is already prompting some high officials to argue that only a strong, top-down, Communist Party-led China could have organized the stunning building projects around these Olympics and the focused performance of so many different Chinese athletes.
The discovery, reported in today's Nature, illustrates how nonliving molecules could have organized into self-sustaining networks, a precondition for the emergence of life.
If Hong Kong democracy activists had wanted to give voice to the popular mood, instead of driving the opinion process through confrontational street action, they could have organized boycotts of the 2017 polls".
"Ten years ago, I couldn't have organized a show like this," Hodge told me.
Or I could have simply organized my books according to some rational, grownup principle.
"If I had been more organized I could have flown the same distance in half an hour, or driven it in two hours".
"During the war, we couldn't have organized training," Commander Pratik said.
Judith Yaphe says that "even the Messiah couldn't have organized a program in that short a time".
Many protesters were convinced that without Twitter's ability to spread news quickly and widely, they could not have organized such large-scale action.
It was also constructive for the CCTV stakeholders and NM reporters, who said that they could not have organized the #CambridgeResponds campaign otherwise and also would not know how to use these new technologies.
