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...relief, then, to find little mention of Iraq in Friedman's new book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 488 pages). Instead the author embarks on a "trail of globalization" that leads him from Wal-Mart warehouses in Bentonville, Ark., to office parks in Bangalore, India. Thanks to a convergence of trends--cheap telecommunications, expanded trade, open-source software, Google--the global playing field is being "flattened" faster than ever before, allowing workers in India and China to compete with, and even outperform, their U.S. counterparts. Friedman sees this transition...
Eating meat is intrinsic to my identity. About a year ago, I decided to go on a quest to turn my stomach into a sort of Noah’s ark: I want to eat every species of animal (hey, it’s important to have goals). My theory is that if something was once warm and fuzzy, it will go well with A-1 sauce. Safe to say, some of my more radical friends did not approve of my carnivorous interpretation of the flood story...
...NCAAs are slated to take place next weekend—March 11-12—in Fayetteville, Ark...
DIED. NICK MCDONALD, 76, Dallas police officer who, on hearing a report of a suspicious man in a movie theater, struggled with an armed Lee Harvey Oswald and arrested him about an hour after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; in Hot Springs, Ark...
...workers in the postcollege world. Vocational schools like DeVry and Strayer, which focus on teaching practical skills, are seeing a mini-boom. Their enrollment grew 48% from 1996 to 2000. More traditional schools are scrambling to give their courses a practical spin. In the fall, Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., will introduce a program called the Odyssey project, which the school says will encourage students to "think outside the book" in areas like "professional and leadership development" and "service to the world." Dozens of other schools have set up similar initiatives...