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...cheap organic food,” Farmer John says. “What happens is that people with a special relationship to the earth start to get squeezed out...this is about building a relationship with the land. If all you have is something cheap from the grocery store, that’s not necessarily going to transform the planet...it’s going to require some economic resources to make it happen...
...masse, lived together, drank together, quite often married each other, and retired together. This close-knit corporate culture, which was virtually national labor policy, was widely credited for Japan's meteoric economic rise. But it all ended when the country hit the skids in the 1990s. Threatened by cheap labor and more efficient business models, Japanese companies began adopting American management concepts such as merit-based pay and competition among employees. "The Japanese equated globalism with not just the American way of business, but with rejecting their past," says Jun Ishida, CEO of Tokyo-based business consultancy Will...
...same Western powers that bombarded their way into foreign markets and countries now, of course, quiver behind their own protectionist ramparts in fear of cheap Chinese goods, for the processes of globalization are continuously evolving. Indeed they have now "outpaced our mind-set," Chanda warns. Petty tribalism still hampers our thinking, preventing concerted international action on a whole host of dangers such as climate change, the threat of viral pandemics and mass humanitarian crises. How much better, says Chanda, to have the geopolitical and economic grasp of the 16th century Portuguese trader and diplomat, Tomé Pires, as he gazed...
...guys. Fifty years from now, Bonds is going to be the cool badass dude. The future generations are going to say: Why does Grandpa get a bleeding ulcer every time I mention his name? Eventually, we get away from the emotion. Right now I hope it gets me a cheap price...
...with 'shrooms that the Dutch themselves do. In Amsterdam, some 90 percent of ambulance dispatches related to magic mushroom use this year were for foreign visitors, especially from Britain, trailed at a distance by Italy, the U.S. and France. "Most problems are caused by foreigners who come here on cheap flights to take as many drugs as they can find," says Guy Boels, chairman of VLOS, an association of Dutch magic mushrooms retailers. "They hardly sleep, they drink alcohol and smoke pot as much as they can and then take a paddo on top of that...