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Nor, most scholars now agree, do they correspond very well to linguistics. Sykes has pointed out that the Basques, who speak a non-Indo-European language amid a sea of Indo-European ones, lack the genetic markers that would indicate they have been in Europe longer than their French and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living in the Past | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

Communism is dead. Hence many of China's top leaders have been hunting for a new national idea to justify the continued existence of the party. Economic modernization continues to be a viable theme. But the spy-plane incident pointed up another seductive ideology: nationalism. At first glance, it seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Key Lessons | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

Communism is dead. Hence many of China's top leaders have been hunting for a new national idea to justify the continued existence of the party. Economic modernization continues to be a viable theme. But the spy-plane incident pointed up another seductive ideology: nationalism. At first glance, it seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy Plane Finale: Four Key Lessons | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

The book is stuffed with facts about injustice in the world, so stuffed that the facts run into one another and thus seem, in a weird way, to be immaterial. The argument for lowering the prices of anti-AIDS drugs does not depend on whether 40 percent of the people...

Author: By Konstantin P. Kakaes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

Blanco was skeptical about the likelihood that the U.S. Congress would give up such powerful weapons as its punitive anti-dumping laws and agricultural subsidies to secure a trade deal. And he was adamant that Mexico and other nations would not accept the inclusion of environmental and labor guarantees in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum on the Future | 4/19/2001 | See Source »

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