Modernization

What I Learned About China and the Environment from Cathay Pacific

Jack Davis | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Environment, Cathay-Pacific-Green-Explorer-Program, Modernization, Travel, China, Cathay Pacific, High School News
Jack Davis

Traveling to China taught me that though poverty and lack of modernization is everywhere, the people affected most by it are often the ones dedicated most to reversing it.

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"Go Russia:" Progress, One Year Later

Arkady Dvorkovich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Modernization, Innovation, Technology, Investment, Economy, World News
Arkady Dvorkovich

As we all know, constructive changes take time, persistence, and commitment. They require new ways of thinking. They do not happen overnight, but their lasting effect can be dramatic nonetheless.

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The Kremlin Continues Shaping a Group-Think Generation

Simon Shuster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nationalism, Politics, Konstantin Rykov, Russia, Vasily Yakimenko, Vladimir Putin, Nashi, Modernization, Vladislav Surkov, Indoctrination, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Seliger, World News
Simon Shuster

Even the cynics might have felt a sputter of optimism when the Kremlin youth group Nashi, Vladimir Putin's militant pep squad, announced its plans for this year's doctrinal summer camp at lake Seliger.

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The Sacred Space Of The Shared Heart

William Horden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gandhi, Simple Life, Wisdom of the Sands, Copper Canyon, Traditional Life, Community-Building, Nonviolence, Modernization, Saint-Euxupery, Tarahumara, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
William Horden

This isn't about what we should eat. That's a matter of personal conscience. What it's about is this: Honoring. Honoring the lives of the animals and plants that die so that we can live.

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Remarks From The Economist's Russia Business Roundtable in Moscow

Arkady Dvorkovich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Modernization, Economic Recovery, Investment, Economic Crisis, Global Economic Crisis, World News
Arkady Dvorkovich

The Russian government stands ready to help businesses by fostering a climate that combats corruption and offers political and economic stability.

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The Best Books of the Decade

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Snow, My Name Is Red, The Museum of Innocence, White Teeth, Aleksander Hemon, Orhan Pamuk, Civil Liberties, Dystopian Fiction, Modernization, Margaret Atwood, William Boyd, Multiculturalism, Philip Roth, Oryx and Crake, Netherland, Immigrants, Zadie Smith, Joseph O'Neill, Poetry, Fundamentalism, Terrorism, The Plot Against America, Iraq War, Post-9/11 America, Bush Administration, Racism, Islam, Books News
Anis Shivani

Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence will be interpreted by clueless reviewers as one about "obsession," just as they might view Nabokov's Lolita to be about "pedophilia."

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Obama in Asia: West Looks East After "The End of History"

Kishore Mahbubani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Westernization, Human Rights, Ronald Reagan, The End of History, Beijing, Guantanamo, Obama, Modernization, Alan Greenspan, Berlin Wall, Cold War, Barack Obama, Fukuyama, Politics News
Kishore Mahbubani

The loss of the West's moral authority is the exact opposite outcome that Western minds expected when they celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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Post Turkey: Obama's Challenges and Opportunities in the Muslim World

John L. Esposito | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama and the Muslim World, Obama Middle East Policy, Social Justice, Al Arabiya, Kurds, Blue Mosque, Secularism, Secularizaion, Guantanamo, Obama Muslim, War-on-Terror, Modernization, G-20, g20, Lieberman, Muslim Heritage, Al-Arabiya, Headscarves, Shariah, Turkish Armenian Conflict, Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Haglia Sophia, Turkey, Palestinian-Israeli-Negotiations, Mustafa- Kemal- Attaturk, Barack Obama, War on Terror, Mustafa Kemal, Jewish Settlements, Turkey-Armenia-Conflict, Turkish-Armenian Relations, Attaturk, Ntanyahu, World News
John L. Esposito

Obama's performance in Turkey was flawless; he met the expectations of his admirers and won approval from many skeptics.

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