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...book is a celebration of those instances where people understood their cultural character and overcame it. Korea, like Colombia, has a high power distance index and its pilots used to have an above-average number of plane crashes. Having recognized that, Korea Air is now one of the world??s safest airlines, Gladwell said. As a line formed to buy a signed copy of Gladwell’s book, some listeners talked about how much they appreciated the author’s perspective. Audience member Riches Anne Constable, who shares Gladwell’s Jamaican heritage, noted that...
...Mumbai must be contextualized as another chapter in the fraught, complex history between the two nations, paying full attention to conflation of religious and national identity. To dumb down and repackage this struggle as one between radical Islamic terrorists and the peace-loving citizens of “the world??s largest democracy” is to deny this complex history, lower the level of discourse, and ultimately justify bad decisions on the policy-making level...
...rapidly growing powerhouse economies,” as Stavins calls them, will soon account for over half of the world??s carbon emissions. But much of their emissions come from ongoing industrialization, a process long since completed in developed countries...
...urges us, “Save money. Live better.” What is this motto other than a consumerist reworking of “have your cake and eat it, too”? As long as we seek out goods produced on a shoestring budget halfway around the world??with all the waste and human exploitation that entails—there can be no thought of “living well...
...they killed as many guests as they could as they rushed the swanky Taj and Oberoi hotels, frequented by foreign tourists and India’s own elite. It is the reason these terrorists killed average Indian citizens as they sped through the city. India is the world??s largest democracy, and these extremists hated democracy...