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...same during the middle of the decade to allow competition, but it had to back down from this practice after phone companies threatened to sue. Worse, the FCC and the courts allowed SBC to buy both AT&T and Bellsouth in 2005 and 2006, creating a huge monopoly that rivaled AT&T of the 1980s. Lack of competition in the U.S. broadband market has lead to huge profits for companies like Comcast and Verizon, making U.S. Internet not only slow but also among the most expensive in the world...
...Although the U.S. has demonstrably fallen behind in terms of Internet access, there is still time to catch up. A few years of good policy would create drastic improvement. Further, any claim that the U.S. is losing its edge is nonsense. A huge digital divide still exists between the industrialized countries in the West and East Asia and those of South Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In India, for instance, only around 10 percent of the population has Internet access...
...would be enormously difficult. Brussels "is worried that this system is not yet fully perfect," says Egenhofer of the Centre for European Policy Studies, "that if you get diffuse sources, such as households and cars, it gets very complex, and potentially expensive." (Read: "The Chevy Volt: GM's Huge Bet on the Electric...
...Nations International Labor Organization estimates that over 12 million women are working as sex slaves at any given time. Rather than letting these problems go unacknowledged, increasing focus on liberating women from restrictive environments and educating them even in simple ways, such as basic first aid, will allow a huge percentage of the world’s population to contribute to forming solutions for the world’s greatest challenges. Otherwise, they will continue to be victims of problems such as chronic poverty without being able to effectively take care of themselves...
...Raising the status of women in many communities requires a multifaceted approach because gender discrimination is ingrained in so many parts of everyday life. SEWA, for example, provides vocational training in a huge number of different trades so women can earn their own incomes. Reading and writing are essential for even basic things, like reading the numbers on buses and the prices in stores; therefore SEWA started literacy programs and its own university for younger members. It schools women in basic first aid and provides counseling and child support for widows. It has established its own bank because no other...