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...powerful, but strong in number and just as pivotal to India's future. Filing into the city in well-organized columns, around 25,000 protestors ended an almost four-week-long walk across India to highlight the fact that they have missed out on its economic boom. The poor, mostly landless peasants are demanding land reform. The government says it will look into the issue. It would not be the first Indian government to say it will...
...Frankel said. Dwight H. Perkins, a professor of political economy, said that China’s incredibly rapid growth should not come as a surprise, despite its lack of natural resources. “Countries that tend to be super rich in natural resources tend to be quite poor,” Perkins said. In an interview before the speech, Kynge said that he felt that the U.S. did not know how to adequately respond to China’s growing political influence in central and southeast Asia. “I really get a sense that the White House...
...Three years later, as I prepare to graduate, perhaps the only things I can take away from my liberal arts education is that smooth plastic is the poor man’s crotch, my parents are fairly average hippies, and my family is not actually perverted, but highly tuned to the natural state of humanity. A 1999 study cited on sleepnaked.org found that 38 out of 45 participants fell asleep faster, slept better and woke more energized when they were in the buff. The Olympics used to be a nude event. Traditional art lauds the naked body as the height...
...been to open up the program to individuals and companies, launching in mid-November in the United States a "Give One, Get One" program that will ask people to pay $400 for two XO's, one of which they will receive and the other to be sent to a poor child...
...better start rolling soon. But Negroponte doesn't seem to mind the doubters. Four years ago, he ran into Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell computer makers at the World Economic Forum and told him - again - about his concept for making inexpensive computers for all the world's poor children. Recalled Negroponte: "He said: 'Nicholas, you tell me that every time I see you. But you know what? It's impossible.'" With a sly grin, Negroponte adds: "When you tell me something's impossible, that's going to make me want...