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More important, Bono has given a public face to the agenda of the developing world at an important moment. Within the next six months, crucial decisions will be made on the shape of the rich world's policies for poverty reduction. Next month in Monterrey, Mexico, President Bush and other leaders will gather to hash out the scale and terms of a new and expanded program of financial assistance to the poorest countries. In the fall a conference in Johannesburg will take stock of the progress toward the U.N.'s "millennium goals" to eliminate extreme poverty and increase access...
...ideals of innovation and good corporate citizenship but has come to mean many things to many people over the past 60 years. Now two polar-opposite visions of the company's destiny--indeed, of how best to survive in today's rough-and-tumble tech economy--have taken shape. When the smoke clears, there will be only...
...known as roads to nowhere?that are gradually transforming Japan into a giant parking lot, causing the national deficit to spiral and propping up inefficient, bloated construction companies. This is exactly the sort of scheme Japan needs to curtail if it is going to get its economy back in shape. Reformist Yamaguchi, however, now that he is in office, supports the highway. "Of course I am lobbying the Ministry of Transportation that we have to build more roads," he says, explaining that a new road would encourage development at the district's nano-technology research center, an earlier pork-barrel...
...Noted "We thought we were in bad shape before. Now we're almost nostalgic for October, when unemployment was only 18%." FEDERICO THOMSEN, senior economist at ING Barings in Argentina, on the fast deteriorating state of the nation's economy...
Another facet of the bionic future is taking shape in a second-floor laboratory at the University of Louvain in Brussels. There Marie, a 63-year-old Belgian woman, is treated to visions of red, blue and yellow dots arranged in neat little rows like the tops of Lego building blocks. Glimpses of Lego bricks are hardly worth getting excited about, but Marie is enthralled - because she's blind...