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...world trade system is growing and changing at an incredible pace. The WTO and the current machinery for the Doha Round can't keep pace. But it can be adapted and put back on track. I believe a deal is doable, and that it can be done within the narrow time frame that we have ahead...
...military, it's used to sharpen soldiers' alertness and cognition. Her research is attempting to determine how this chemical affects normal people. "Is there a trade-off," she wonders, "between focusing attention and reducing creativity? And if more workers use it to excel, will we have a workforce of narrow, rigid thinkers...
...look at the Greenpeace rankings [Dell is tied for first among tech companies], we've been doing a lot in this area. Sometimes innovation is looked at through a fairly narrow lens, in the sense of, O.K., what small, shiny object did you create? That's fine--small, shiny objects are nice--but for us innovation is a bit broader in terms of supply chains and the Internet and all the things we do. The last year was relatively challenging for us, but we still made a few billion dollars. Nothing to be too ashamed about...
Since Clinton's plan died, the Federal Government has attacked health care only at the margins--by covering more children, for instance, and narrowing the parameters by which insurance companies can deny coverage. Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat, proposed a universal-health-care bill in December, but it has got virtually no help from the Democratic leadership. In the last election, House Democrats made only narrow promises on health-care coverage in their "Six for '06" agenda, including Medicare prescription-drug reform and the funding of stem-cell research...
Ostheim in der Rhoen is a quiet German town in northern Bavaria. Picture-book pretty, with narrow, winding streets, it doesn't seem like a place where anything - let alone anything hip - ever happens. But this bucolic hamlet is the birthplace of Bionade, an all-natural soft drink that's become a national sensation (it more than tripled sales last year), one that its creators now hope to export worldwide...