Word: globalization
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...April Fools' Day but apparently seriously - the inclusion of fasces on the Mercury dime in 1916.) That fat cats and bureaucratic "bloodsuckers" are plundering your future. That Mexico will collapse and chaos will pour over the border. That America believes too little in God and too much in global warming. That "they" - Big Government, Big Business, Big Media - are against you. Above all, that you, small-town, small-business America - Palinville - have been forgotten. Dismissed. Laughed at. Just like him. (See the top 10 TV feuds...
...Obama’s speech quickly converted thousands in the crowd, and presumably thousands of others who watched or listened to broadcasts, into his latest believers. He has become a global force, reassuring for the future while skillfully appealing to the past. Famed former Czech President Vaclav Havel, who met with Obama afterward, warned him of the risks of becoming so popular as to create impossible expectations. Yet, for now, Obama has exceeded the expectations of yet another foreign nation, leaving even President Vaclav Klaus somewhat overwhelmed in his wake. Klaus told the media the speech...
...unprecedented level of global interdependence deepened the U.S. recession, but there is light at the end of the tunnel, according to the two professors of economics who lead a discussion on “The Global Impacts of the Financial Crisis” yesterday afternoon. International Economics Professor Richard N. Cooper said he was surprised by the extent of the damage wrought by the sub-prime mortgage crisis. “I don’t know of anyone who foresaw the ramifications of the sub-prime crisis through the whole economic system,” he said...
...HSPH and HSDM with international public health policy experience in the World Health Organization, also underscored the importance of the study’s potential impact on the role of dentists. Since periodontal disease is one of the most common dental diseases and since obesity has become a global epidemic, “if we can understand the mechanism linking the two, we can potentially affect the prevention of periodontal disease and management,” Zavras said. “This is a great starting point,” he added. The study’s researchers said they...
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