We thus tend to infuse the passage of time with meaning and to see agency in it as well, whether it takes the form of God's supernatural agency in settling moral scores or nature knocking us off the pedestal of our technological hubris.
Indeed, the Sunnis of the Arab world are becoming increasingly twitchy about what they perceive as a rising Shia challenge, by Arab Shias in Iraq as well as by Persians, to their long-time hegemony (see article).
When they posted their first quaterly loss a few fiscal quarters ago it was stunning to see how much money they lost for the first timeinwell over a decade.
The auto industry has been working on so-called V2V technology for a long time but this is the first large-scale test to see how well it works in the real world.