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Top 10 Live/Work Houses

Adel Zakout | Posted 12.22.2012 | HuffPost Home
Read More: Live/Work, Live Work Space, Post-Industrial-Society, Slidepollajax, Globalisation, Brunnenstrasse, A21, HuffPost Home News
Adel Zakout

The live/work trend is steadily on the rise and I am personally very intrigued about how this will influence and change our homes. But I also find it fascinating how it relates to the bigger picture of society, what it means, where it comes from and where it's taking us.

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Who Moved My Job?

Mark Hillary | Posted 11.20.2012 | Business
Read More: Authors, Outsourcing, Offshoring, Offshore Outsourcing, Globalisation, Work, Books, Employment, It, Jobs, Bpo, Technology, Recession, Ito, Business News
Mark Hillary

One of the enormous changes in the past four years has been the growth in the use of social media. From 100m Facebook users in 2008 to almost a billion now, there has never been a better time for to tell my audience that I'm about to update an old book.

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Localization: The Film!

Catherine Ingram | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Helena Norberg-Hodge, Bill Mckibben, Globalisation, Localisation, The Economics of Happiness, Globalization, Localization Film, Vandana Shiva, Localization, Isec, Video, Green News
Catherine Ingram

The Economics of Happiness, as one would surmise from its title, is not a picture of gloom. The film convincingly depicts the multiple benefits of localization.

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Congressman Boehner, Are You Listening?

Dave Colavito | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Democracy, Corporate Power, Globalisation, Nafta, Global Warming, Supreme Court, Politics News
Dave Colavito

The "money buys elected official, elected official determines public policy, public policy privatizes profits while socializing risk" reality has received more than just legal fortification; it's been given license and become a requirement.

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Shrinking Dollar Sets Off Alarms Overseas, But Helps US

Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: UK, Recovery, Rate Change, Economy, Currency, Globalization, Pound, Recession, Euro, Economic Recovery, Yen, Exchange Rate, Globalisation, Dollar, Japan, China, Home News

The dramatic decline of the U.S. dollar is aiding the American economic recovery but setting off alarm bells overseas, with corporate executives, poli...

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About Things Swinish

Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Bureaucracy, Pandemic, India, Globalisation, Swine Flu, World News
Pinaki Bhattacharya

The mass paranoia the news television channels were able to create in urban India was symptomatic of the modern wired 21st century age.

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Interview with Arundhati Roy: 'We Need a Feral Howl'

Christina Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Investment Climate, Globalisation, Nuclear Tests, Narmada Dam, 9/11, Afghanistan, India, Obama, Democracy, Booker Prize, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy, Entertainment News
Christina Patterson

Roy is one of the only writers to have hit international stardom with fiction that won plaudits for its winsome playfulness and to have eschewed it, for more than a decade, for deadly serious polemic.

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