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GLADWELL: One of the most striking things in observing the evolution of American society is the rise of travel. If I had to name a single thing that has transformed our life, I would say the rise of JetBlue and Southwest Airlines. They have allowed us all to construct new geographical identities for ourselves. Many working people today travel who never could have in the past, for meetings and conferences and all kinds of things, and this is creating another identity for them...
DYSON: And once you travel, you come back and use other technologies to stay in touch. It used to be if you traveled somewhere for an interesting week, you come home and nothing has changed. Now you can stay in touch with the people you meet. I think cheap telephone service has made a huge difference in how people think. When I went to college as a kid, it was long distance, so I never called home. Now I'm on the phone to London before breakfast...
GLADWELL: Some interesting things come out of all of this travel. I would expect an acceleration of the declining importance of nationality. The rise of transnationalism is already an important recent trend. There are pockets in Queens [N.Y.] that maintain active ties with home in Mexico. If you extrapolate, I don't think foreign policy or any kind of politics can be practiced the way it is now in a country where enormous numbers of people genuinely have dual identities and reinforce them by flying back and forth to their adoptive countries for nothing...
...decide how to prepare for an influenza pandemic, whose schedule and severity we have virtually no way of predicting. "No one really knows what's going to happen," says Dr. Howard Markel, a medical historian at the University of Michigan and the author of When Germs Travel. "Anyone who says they do is an idiot or lying...
...Murphy campaigns with a staff member—a self-described “concerned citizen,” Laurence Field, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979. Field carries a list of addresses in the area and together they consult it often, checking off residents as they travel door to door. Today, they are calling on homes they have not visited before. Over the course of 55 minutes, Murphy knocks on 25 doors and speaks face-to-face with 10 people.“Door-knocking is a numbers game in the sense that most people won?...