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This Levantine spirit developed gradually in Beirut after the Industrial Revolution, as the burgeoning Lebanese silk trade and the invention of the steamboat combined to bring men and women of America...
These alliances began with the most basic blood association—the family—and then expanded to the clan, the tribe, and then to other tribes.
There is nothing called ‘underprivileged’ anymore, said Yildiz. All you need is a working brain, some short training, and then put your idea into a fantastic business from any part of the world!
The story also pointed out that most big cities and towns have chambers of commerce and economic development offices, but what makes Itasca unique, participants say, is a commitment to hard data and M...
The Levantine political idea, which grew naturally among the communities of the eastern Mediterranean, was an original way of dealing with diverse tribal, village, and sectarian identities, and it ins...
The Cold War was a struggle between two competing systems of order, dominated by two competing superpowers, who could, relatively speaking, keep their allies ideologically in line, physically intact,...
She would initiate three races to the top from the federal level—with prizes of $100 million, $75 million, and $50 million—to vastly accelerate innovations in social technologies: Which state can come...
Robots can now milk cows. Oil prices have fallen globally, meaning both the petro-states and those indirectly propped up by them are weakened. At the same time, slower growth in China has lately shrun...
President Obama gave voice to exactly this sentiment in the speech he delivered as the first American president to visit Hiroshima, on May 27, 2016: Science allows us to communicate across the seas an...
President Obama advocated in his Hiroshima speech: What makes our species unique [is that] we’re not bound by genetic code to repeat the mistakes of the past. We can learn. We can choose. We can tell...
One of the strengths of Labor Zionism had always been its strong pragmatic outlook, its philosophy that a new reality can be built only by careful planning and then constructing things brick by brick,...
Obama added, is to see our growing interdependence as a cause for peaceful cooperation and not violent competition. To define our nations not by our capacity to destroy but by what we build. And perha...
Los flujos de información y conocimiento resultantes están haciendo que el mundo no sólo esté interconectado e hiperconectado, sino que sea también interdependiente: todo el mundo en todas partes es a...
Looking back on all my interviews for this book, how many times in how many different contexts did I hear about the vital importance of having a caring adult or mentor in every young person’s life? Ho...
Lin Wells, who teaches strategy at the National Defense University. According to Wells, it is fanciful to suppose that you can opine about or explain this world by clinging to the inside or outside of...
I asked him what he did. He said his name was John Lord and that he was in the software business. What kind of software? I asked. He said that his company’s goal was to make lawyers obsolete wherever...
Gates put it to me this way: For good stuff to happen, it requires a lot of things to go well—you need many pieces to get stability right. None of it is going to happen overnight, but we need to work...
Companies are now experimenting not just with ways to change the pulse or the color of light to create more capacity, but also with new ways of shaping that light that can deliver more than one hundre...
Chúng ta đang ở trong một hệ thống quốc tế mới. Hệ thống này có logic, có quy luật, có áp lực và có động lực riêng của nó - nó đáng được gọi bằng tên riêng - Toàn Cầu Hóa. Toàn cầu hóa không chỉ là mộ...