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...father of English empiricism, John Locke. Estens' Dreaming is the Enlightenment and the rich earth of the Moree plains - liberty and equality, with a dash of Aussie bush can-do and toil. He started the AES with the idea of providing skilled labor for the cotton industry; that modest venture seemed to lift the town and as the institutions surrounding job placement changed under the Howard government, the innovator started to work the system. As supportive elders held off the "radical and ratbag elements," Estens turned the AES into a crusade. Perhaps a non-indigenous person is the only...
After years in slow motion, European economies are showing signs of a modest revival: business confidence is buoyant, investment is rising and the Continent's thrifty consumers are even loosening their purse strings a little. But the European Central Bank (ECB) is not cheering. Last week, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet confirmed to the European Parliament that the bank is planning to raise interest rates in the near future to combat what it sees as growing inflationary pressures. The first hike could come as early as this week. Trichet insisted that rate rises will be limited in scope and that...
...world's desperately poor and sick simply by contributing to reputable aid organizations. As the gift-giving season approaches, TIME's report challenges us to make a tradition of contributing life-sustaining resources to those whose suffering knows no holiday. If the merely comfortable of the world pooled their modest gifts, they could make a difference that no individual hero or celebrity can ever achieve. Let us all be heroes. Denise Couling South Lyon, Michigan...
...world's desperately poor and sick simply by contributing to reputable aid organizations. As the gift-giving season approaches, Time's report challenges us to make a tradition of contributing life-sustaining resources to those whose suffering knows no holiday. If the merely comfortable of the world pooled their modest gifts, they could make a difference that no individual hero or celebrity could ever achieve. Let us all be heroes. Denise Couling South Lyon, Michigan, U.S. We have problems recognizing life's heroes because those we find in the corridors of power are only self-important speechmakers. The true heroes...
...latest round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) was supposed to make Diarra's modest wishes come true. Launched in 2001, the Doha "development" round is intended to thrash out new trade arrangements for agriculture, with a specific focus on reducing the rich world's subsidies and opening Western markets to the developing world's producers. In return, the vision goes, the developing world will allow more access to its service industries, such as insurance and banking...