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Personal Jets Disrup |
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| According to The Wall Street Journal,1 travel in private jets will triple in the next 10 years with the introduction of what is being referred to as very light jet, or VLJ, aircraft. |
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Digital Books Start |
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| Since at least the 1960s and possibly earlier, we’ve been hearing predictions about the demise of paper. Xerox famously, and disastrously, attempted to create the “paperless office” in the 1970s. If anything, we use more paper now than ever, owing to the ease of running off copies with laser printers and copiers. |
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The Search for Meani |
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| If you were to chart the objective indicators of social welfare since World War Two, you would see an across-the-board increase in such objective measures as per-capita income, “real” income, longevity, cars per driver, phone calls per capita, trips taken, highest degree earned, and even IQ scores. The graphs of subjective indicators like personal freedom, women’s freedom, and reduction of bias against minority groups would also show steady trends upward. |
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The Long and Short o |
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| We’ve recently experienced oil price fluctuations that remind us of the economic importance of fossil fuels. But, just how important is petroleum today and going forward? What are the shortterm, medium-term, and long-term trends driving oil prices? What’s likely to happen to oil prices and what are the implications? |
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The Greens Are Fadin |
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| Despite their best efforts and those of their political and academic allies, the well-funded Green Movement is being marginalized - and this decline is likely to continue.
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