Word: egging
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...some as new-age pop philosophy while hailed by others as an astute criticism of civilization in general, it seems that the only agreement that can be reached is that Peter Høeg’s work is hard to place.In answer to accusations of obscurity, Høeg advises us to read his book again. “I had a lot of time to work [the plot] together into something very condensed. I felt I was taking the reader to the edge; I might have gone farther than I realised.” Though Høeg...
...answer to thriving in a terrorist world is one part Bethune, one part Hamel. The Bethune part is simple: stick to basic values (eg. the customer comes first, baggage handlers deserve the same respect as the chief financial officer, no profits are worth damage to the environment, etc.) and demonstrate them (forego a chunk, if not all, of your multi-million dollar compensation when you have to lay off thousands of employees...
...ELTIS: Until late in the nineteenth century Africans, aided by epidemiology, had the power to keep Europeans from colonizing their territory. Sugar, even in the Caribbean, was grown in micro-climates and these micro-climates existed in West Africa (eg, Sao Tome). Europeans attempted to establish plantations in Africa in the late seventeenth century. They did not have the political and military control to do so and were forced to treat with Africans as equals. The plantations were established in the Americas instead, and the expensive transatlantic slave was necessary to bring them labor. In this sense the slave trade...