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...TIME: Haven't we also fallen behind in the pledges made at the U.N. millennium summit six years ago to reduce poverty...
...millennium or so ago, the archipelago from Hudson Bay through Nunavut to northern Greenland was inhabited by nomadic groups we now call the Dorset people. They were, according to Inuit legend, tall and gentle folk, and they hunted from the ice edge, harpooning seals and walruses with tools made of bone and ivory. When a slight warming period hit about 1,000 years ago, the ice receded. Bowhead whales moved in from Alaskan waters, followed by seafaring hunters from the Bering Strait. With their boats, those hunters, the forebears of Canadian Inuit, eventually spread east to Greenland. For reasons still...
...died, so did China's global ambitions. Mandarins decided that oceangoing voyages were a waste of time and money; soon the great naval shipyards in Nanjing had been broken up, and China retreated into a self-absorbed attitude of mind that it would not lose for half a millennium. It's a cautionary note, a reminder that the waves of trade that knit us together can ebb as well as flow. There is a famous passage in The Economic Consequences of the Peace, written by John Maynard Keynes in 1920, which every student of globalization knows by heart. Keynes describes...
...Today, Summers’–– trip takes place at a time of rising economic integration between rich and poor regions of the world. The shift “has the potential to be one of the three most important economic events in the last millennium, alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution,” Summers said last month at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. —Javier C. Hernandez contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas.harvard.edu...
...quite sell itself. Battling everything from bad reviews to bizarre bicycling accidents, Stereolab’s had it pretty tough the last couple of years. There have been personnel shifts, distracting side projects, and, most damaging, the death of vocalist Mary Hansen. This hectic beginning to the millennium seems to have left Stereolab a bit dazed, a shell of its former self. Try as they might, the group’s most recent release sounds like they’re just going through the motions. There’s very little on “Fab Four” that...