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...post-Lisbon institutions with the authority and capacity to make concrete contributions to the pressing global challenges we face together." In Africa, India, Latin America, leaders would fall over themselves to engage more closely with a power that's neither the U.S. nor China - both nations that can come across as too powerful, too proselytizing of their own values, too prone to see their interaction with others solely in terms of their own national interests...
...leaders like Gates persist in the old ideas of wars, troops and battlefields? Sending troops across the world to "win" is a fundamentally flawed and outmoded concept - not to speak of the fact that we as a nation cannot afford it. The terrorists are slowly bleeding our nation toward ruin as we are drawn into war after impossible war. Robert Anderson Idaho Falls, Idaho...
...commercial airplanes, we have been the world leader in turboprops and regional jets. Now we are going more mainline, but not to compete against Boeing and Airbus. These are the planes that can seat five people across, or about 130 passengers. These airplanes exist, but they are getting old. We are going to offer a unique product that consumes 20% less fuel, has 15% better operating costs and is 50% quieter than what is offered today. Boeing and Airbus have shrunken versions of their larger planes, but they are not efficient and don't sell well. That...
...surprised and disappointed that you gave no credit to W. Edwards Deming. The American statistician was responsible for helping elevate Japanese manufacturing across the board and making the Japanese car industry competitive with the Big Three, which had initially refused his ideas...
There's nothing like a good excuse to eat some curry. Some 17,000 people turned out on Feb. 24 in cities across Australia to eat dinner at Indian restaurants as part of Vindaloo Against Violence. The mass-dining campaign started as a 100-person Facebook event but soon grew into a show of solidarity with Australia's 450,000-member Indian community. Violence against Indians, including the suspected race-related murder of a graduate student on Jan. 2, has been on the rise in the past year...