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...whole world wants to see a strong Europe. It can provide an alternative pole of growth, a model for abolishing wars between neighbors, cultural education and a moral voice for supporting initiatives like the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court. There are no shortages of opportunities for Europe to provide leader-ship. But, as Copenhagen demonstrated, it may no longer even be in the room when crucial decisions are being made...
...tool. Strategically speaking, you might think of it as a carefully orchestrated effort to gradually sideline Microsoft's lumbering desktop software suite. To that end, Picnik will bolster Google's launch of its new Web-oriented Chrome operating system later this year. "The consumer market is evolving into a model where every useful or interesting application starts with a login to the cloud," says Nat Burgess, president of the Corum Group, an M&A advisory firm, and a member of Picnik's advisory board. (See pictures of China mourning the potential loss of Google...
...model is focused on prevention, and in this country, we don’t fund prevention, we fund illness,” Bennet says. “That can sometimes make it difficult to have people understand the impact and the value of prevention...
...their surprise, Holton and Sonnert said that the group did not follow the usual model of assimilation, in which immigrants become familiar with the new country’s culture before achieving social and economic success...
This theory has been brought to the fore by the groundbreaking new book, Identity Economics, by economists George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton. The two begin their investigation of students’ incentives with the traditional economic model in which students weigh the monetary costs and benefits of education. Then, however, they look at the social categories common in a school. There are “insiders” are often the jocks or high achievers who are very involved in school life. There are also “outsiders,” the “burnouts?...