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...countries are focusing on increasingly visible and expensive manned missions and unmanned lunar landings within the next two decades. Space exploration is one area of national endeavor where developing China, the third nation to put a man in orbit around Earth, is not scrambling to catch up with its wealthier, more technologically advanced rival. Make no mistake, says Joan Johnson-Freese, the chair of the National Security Studies Department at the U.S. Naval War College, "China is on a fast track into space," and that has definitely caught Japan's attention...
...while a mere 11 percent are “business-class conservatives.” I’m not sure how Brooks came up with this statistic, but, at best, it is horribly misleading. George W. Bush won every income bracket above $50,000 per year, and the wealthier you are the more likely it is that you are a Bush voter...
...former a highly educated and trained core of ?lite employees and entrepreneurs working for internationally competitive companies, the latter an increasingly marginalized yet growing sector of society comprising primarily elderly rural poor and despairing urban youths like Ijiri. "In the past, people believed that the whole nation was getting wealthier, and the rich were simply the people who got there quicker," says Toshiki Satou, a sociologist at the University of Tokyo (U.T.). "But that is changing. People are becoming more aware of class...
Hwang was born just after the Korean War and grew up in a poor rural village in Chungcheong province, three hours from Seoul. "It was difficult to survive," he says. His father died when he was 5, and his mother raised six children by helping wealthier neighbors take care of their cows. After school, Hwang would look after the three cows assigned to his family. He decided then that he wanted to study the animals when he grew...
...part of the problem, because automation leads to job losses? Automating routine work makes a society wealthy. The question is, is a society innovative enough to replace these with higher-level jobs? This is what we have to do. Without increased productivity, how can a country be wealthier and more successful? The E.U. constitution could be in trouble. How does that affect business? If Europe wants to compete, we have to be unified. We can't compete if countries stand on their own. From our point of view, better than a constitution would be if an IT consultant could work...