Word: numbering
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...Michael Jordan advertising Nike shoes on CNN. But beneath the surface, inevitably, traditional differences remain. George Bernard Shaw declared generations ago that England and America were two countries divided by a common language. Now the world often resembles 200 countries divided by a common frame of cultural reference. The number of countries on the planet, in the 20th century, has more than tripled...
...rest of the world, and Indian leaders make nuclear gestures as if Dr. Strangelove had just landed in Delhi. And as some of us are able to fly across continents for business or pleasure, others are propelled out of their homelands by poverty and necessity and war, in record numbers: the number of refugees in the world has gone up 1,000% since...
...mobilizing the full resources of France, Napoleon created a new approach to warfare. Young people were drafted, centralized administrative structures were created, and arms production was expanded and standardized. In this new approach the stakes were high. Defeat meant the loss of the state and its territories, as a number of European monarchs discovered...
Some see these moves as steps toward a world full of nukes. But in retrospect what is striking is less the number of countries that have gone nuclear than the number that have not. And several, including South Africa, Brazil and Argentina, have even reversed course and abandoned once active weapons programs...
...worry about the noise from your next-door neighbor; acoustics technology can block that out. And don't fret about fighting for a windowed office either; with walls of flat-screen monitors raining down images and data from all directions, you will be able to enjoy any number of stunning virtual views from your cockpit. To chat with a co-worker a continent away, just call him or her on a lifelike, 3-D video-conferencing system. If you need to get busy on a project with a few of your colleagues, simply fold up your movable workstation and roll...