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Actually, lots of people. After Gates outlined creative capitalism in a speech at Davos, Switzerland, in January, I started a website on the topic creativecapitalismblog.com) with the Tom Sawyer--ish intention of inviting distinguished economists, journalists and ordinary people to discuss their reaction to Gates' notion and then turning it all into a book. It has worked like a dream, and the book will be out by the end of the year. The remarkable thing is the variety of objections to what seems like an idea that's hard to dispute...
...days before he left on his eight-country world tour, Barack Obama wanted to discuss the trip with an old contact in Washington: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Obama's phone call was in part a courtesy, but over three years of occasional phone conversations, the two have quietly discussed everything from foreign aid to the Middle East and nuclear proliferation. Obama and Rice have come to have a certain respect for each other, says an Obama aide familiar with their conversations, because both take an intellectual, sober view of foreign affairs. "They've had good exchanges," the aide says...
...this makes it easy to publish and discuss all the things you do - the books you read, the clothes you buy, the movies you see - on Facebook and off. All these things you "share" help connect you to your friends, but more importantly, they connect you to advertisers. That's not a bad thing, necessarily. But you need to be aware...
Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declined to discuss what it may have in store for the genetic-testing industry except to say it's definitely on the regulators' radar. Currently the FDA has chosen not to oversee laboratory-developed tests like these, although it has discretion...
...Sudanese were confirming to other people involved in the crimes that they were protected," says Moreno-Ocampo. International diplomats seemed to take no notice, let alone care. In September French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner organized a meeting of 18 foreign ministers from around the world to discuss the Darfur crisis at the U.N. Justice was not on the agenda...