Word: globalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city and leaving only broken windows and smashed hopes for a new round of trade accords. The World Trade Organization (WTO) conference there was plagued by overly simplistic approaches on both sides. A wiser process would be able to address labor and environmental concerns while maintaining open global commerce...
...more effective means to improve the global environment and the lot of workers abroad might include, for example, international accords outside of the framework of the WTO and of trade. If linked to increases in development aid, offering carrots instead of only sticks, such accords might be accepted by developing nations and would not be susceptible to the charges of hidden protectionism that derailed the efforts at the Seattle conference...
Hans S. Perl-Matanzo '01 is a social anthropology concentrator in Cabot House. He is the director of the Global Student Movement for Peace in Vieques...
...effort that truly embodies the spirit of global cooperation. The principal research is conducted at two large-scale industrial laboratories: the Sanger Centre in England and Washington University in St. Louis. The team decoding this particular chromosome (Chromosome 22--chosen because it is the shortest) also included scientists at Keio University in Japan and at the University of Oklahoma. Together, they produced a novel-length string of letters that identify the thousand or so genes at all points along the chromosome...
...project picks up speed--team members predict that, having cleared this first hurdle, the remaining 22 chromosomes should be mapped by the projected 2005 completion date--the debate around the nature of the work is reaching a fevered pitch. If millennium doomsdayers seem frightening with their predictions of global demise, they don't hold a candle to the groups that claim that the Human Genome Project is the first step towards an existence straight out of Huxley's Brave New World...