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Your suggestions are very interesting, but they're not really broad enough. Your authors are policy advisers, economists and experts who present a materialistic view of the world. There is no philosopher, no artist, no musician. By neglecting nonmaterialistic values, you present rather a narrow and lopsided view of the future. And I would ask, is a future that looks like this really worth living in? Hans Gerbig, GERSTHOFEN, GERMANY...
...fact, it only strengthened our will - and my will - to say we really have to change this country: Issues like how the public administration is run, issues like lack of transparency, clientelistic party politics (which would mean doing favors to your friends and voters and so on, rather than putting down rules) which undermine a sense of rule of law. (See pictures of immigration in Europe...
...Greek politicians. Trim and fit, the U.S.-born Prime Minister (his mother, Margaret, is from Illinois) lived much of his youth in exile with his father in the U.S., Canada and Sweden. He speaks English with a quiet, Midwestern cadence and perfect American idioms. In Greek he's cerebral rather than fervent, eschewing the widespread idea that a Greek politician needs to dominate a room with oversize rhetoric. The Greek press sometimes even mocks him for his small grammatical errors. (See TIME's Greece covers...
...laughing at herself. The essayist and novelist has spent much of the past 30 years chasing profound truths, pinning them to the page and then dousing them with self-deprecating humor. She makes life's terrifying challenges seem small enough to hold in your hand, cameos to contemplate rather than big pictures to overwhelm, whether it's writing a book (Bird by Bird), finding faith (Traveling Mercies) or saying farewell to a loved one (Hard Laughter). See the all TIME 100 novels...
...away from my two days is that technology is a gift from God and should never be turned off - one simple text would have kept Cassandra's friends at the party, which would have led to more drinking and Liberace-level candle lighting - I did learn that I'd rather hang out with my wife and son than find out every time someone retweets me. I don't want to feel the need to respond to everything as soon as I can. But I do, of course, need everyone else to respond to my e-mails, texts and calls right...