In her later work, she wrote of an increasing antagonism toward older people for occupying "a growing number of power positions," and she urged fellow social scientists to explore ways to avoid such resentment.
Kaplan writes of one student who increased his score by three hundred and forty points, and ended up with a Ph.D. and a position as a scientist at Xerox.
"It is of the nature of war," Alexander Hamilton wrote, "to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority .And Hamilton was speaking about conventional warfare — not the war on terror with all its novel challenges.
Stephenson writes, of Clark, that "his increasing reliance on narcotics periodically reached a head and would culminate with his disappearance.
One of his students, Abdullah Syafi'i Sukandi, recalled that Nangis Wibisana had been written when the dangding (a traditional lyrical form) Tjeurik Oma (Oma's Cry) was popular, whereas Goenoeng Gelenjoe had been written during a period of increased interest in humorous anecdotes.
"Thus," the researchers write, "the social consequences of increased inequality may not entail as much relative impoverishment, or as much perceived injustice, as might appear".
"A lot has been written about the dangers of increased government surveillance, but we also need to be aware of the potential for more pedestrian forms of surveillance," notes Bruce Schneier, a security guru.
Three things really fascinate me about the new digital writing toolkit: the possibility of increased immersion in a story, the ability to represent choice, and the way the audience can influence the story.
In Martin Amis's 1995 novel, "The Information," we meet a character who aspires to write "The History of Increasing Humiliation," a treatise chronicling the gradual dethronement of humankind from its position at the center of the universe, beginning with Copernicus.
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