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The Al Qaeda Challenge

November 10, 2006
Intelligence officers in the UK have investigated 200 extremist networks operating in the UK and thwarted at least five terrorist attacks since the London bus bombings in summer 2005. Many suspects are British citizens, and public officials reflect on their society and its policies, trying to...

Backing Down on Steel Tariffs, U.S. Strengthens Trade Group

December 5, 2003
The fight over US steel tariffs, writes David Sanger in the New York Times, will go down in history as the case that defines the World Trade Organization's power. No case in the eight year history of the WTO has tested its power to quite the same degree, but now it has been tested – and won...

Gulf States: Educational Reform's Real Goals

June 1, 2006
The Arab Gulf states – Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman – are not known for eagerly incorporating reforms suggested by other countries. Education is an exception, however. Young students attending universities are products of a system that owes much – and some would say...

Gates Urges IT, Education, Telecom Funds

November 13, 2002
On his four-day tour of India, Bill Gates encouraged investment in India’s information technology sector. Though Americans and Europeans tend to emphasize the recent slowdown in the information technology industry, Gates expressed faith in India’s potential for growth in that area. He dismissed...

Why the Financial Crisis and What is the Way Out

Carmen Reinhart
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No Ice at the North Pole

July 2, 2008
Researchers suggest that the North Pole could completely lose its ice this summer for the first time in human history. The rate of melting has increased in recent years and a greater proportion of the ice is from a single season, reports Steve Connor for the Independent. “The polar regions are...

The New Dot-Economy

December 11, 2006
Half a decade after the dot-com bubble burst, the US is experiencing another boom in internet business. Economic and technological innovation has sent costs into free-fall, encouraging small start-ups to enter high-tech markets considered too expensive until recently. Advances in computer chips...

Trade Wars Brewing In Economic Malaise

May 15, 2009
In a new twist to protectionism, local governments in the US have reduced purchases of products from traditional partners like Canada due to “buy American” clauses in the federal government’s stimulus package. Unlike usual protectionist measures such as tariffs, quotas, or subsidies, buying from...
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