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Some migrations are forced at gunpoint. Others are set in motion by the global economy. Money is dynamite, and it can scatter people better than mortar fire. The world is well into the second Industrial Revolution, in which the developed nations have gone dotcom and service. Smokestack industry and light manufacturing have moved to the Third World, and farmers have been displaced by the transformation of family agriculture into corporate agribusiness. As workers everywhere have moved off somewhere else, looking for the headwaters of the global-money flows, oversize cities have exploded. Landless Philippine farmers pack into Manila, jobless Moroccans...
...most purchases, but how long can the holiday last? The 19-member Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce is scheduled to issue recommendations to Congress this week. Despite the fact that a majority of commission members are reportedly in favor of leveling the playing field between bricks-and-mortar businesses and Internet dot-com stores, they're not expected to suggest repeal of the federal tax freeze anytime soon. The problem is no one agrees on how sales taxes, usually levied by states, could be set and collected, or by whom...
...myth Bezos tried to dismiss was that the "Internet changes everything." The Internet, said Bezos, "doesn't change people." With an explosion in online retailers, Bezos claimed that brand names are even more important online than in traditional brick and mortar businesses...
...Where you want to go with it?" Sadler outlined a plan for remediation, second chances, summer school and a grade-placement committee to catch mistakes. Bush was worried about diluting standards. "It was a very detailed discussion," says Sadler. "We talked about philosophy, and we talked about bricks and mortar. It was not just a vision thing--he knows his stuff...
...weeks ago, Iranians held their breath when a mortar blast killed one person and injured five others near the President's office. The attack turned out to be the work of an exiled leftist group rather than religious thugs who have frequently unleashed violence on the President's supporters. A prominent ayatullah provided a moment of comic relief by making the farfetched claim that an ex-CIA director had arrived in Tehran with suitcases full of cash for reformers. The laughter was short-lived: hard-liners jailed a cartoonist for lampooning the conspiracy-minded ayatullah...