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Nutrition Deferred |
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Today, much of the world remains malnourished, despite the increasing availability of technological solutions to the problem. What we’ve done is defer nutrition for hungry people because of widespread fear of genetically modified foods. |
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The World Is Swimmin |
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An old saying tells us, “You can never be too thin or too rich.” But the truth is that you can have too much cash. Today, the developing world and Europe are spending less money than they are taking in, and the result is a surplus of savings that the global economy must somehow learn to use effectively.
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The New Era of Publi |
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As Bill Clinton acknowledged in 1995, “The era of big government is over.” However, society still needs to make investments in huge infrastructure projects like highways, dams, and cultural institutions. When developing these big projects while maintaining a smaller government, the solution is increasingly to turn to “public-private partnerships,” to which both government and private enterprise bring their unique advantages. |
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The Coming Global Wa |
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As we’ve discussed, America must confront such issues as the fifth wave and the rise of global powers like China, with its mammoth population of cheap workers, its vast hoards of cash, and its urgent agenda for acquiring the resources to make it an economic superpower. |
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New Weapons Are Pois |
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For people of any age, the word “cancer” has carried dire connotations for generations. Until recently, that ominous sense of cancer as a killer was literally true, at least for many forms of the disease. And just 10 years ago, there were few treatments apart from the crude and devastating ones, such as chemotherapy and radiation. |
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