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[800ceoread.com] 800-CEO-READ Blog: Global Business Archives: Jagdish Bhagwati, a (tentured) professor at Columbia University, is generally regarded as one of the world's leading international trade theorists. Martin Wolf is an associate editor of London's Financial Times, where he writes on trade and much else, informed by many years as a World Bank economist.

[Webapp.utexas.edu] Sarkar Lab WebLog: Biopolitics Archives: It's premised on the ideas that these islanders are missing out on international aid because the Indian government is not allowing foreign NGOs into the islands and that conservation biologists know how to get to such people because they work in remote areas. The claims proabably have some truth to them though, at least in the particular case of the indigenous groups of these islands, it is far from clear that such external aid would be accepted, let alone welcome, by the islanders.

[Novak.com] Ken Novak's Weblog: 111m surfers in China: "The number of Web users in China, the world's second largest Internet market, grew by 18 percent in 2005 to 111 million, the Economic Daily reported on Wednesday. Some 8.5 percent of the country's 1.3 billion people now had access to the Internet, the newspaper reported, citing a survey released by the China Internet Network Information Center. 

 [Cfo.com] Barter Gets Real - CFO Magazine - November Issue 1997 - CFO.com: The International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA), in Chicago, tracked 1424 .Yankee ingenuity spawned corporate barter.

 [Peakoil.blogspot.com] Peak Oil News: The world would have to embark on a crash mitigation program 20 years in advance to prevent peak oil from hobbling the global economy, says Robert Hirsch, a senior energy program adviser at San Diego-based research and engineering firm Science Applications International Corp. ``And I consider myself an optimist,'' says Hirsch, 71, who included his findings in a 2005 study on peak oil for the U.S. Department of Energy and estimates such a program would cost the world $1 trillion a year.

 [Hacking NetFlix] New Releases for January 11, 2005: Return to Kitty Hawk: 100 Years of Flight A century after Orville and Wilbur Wright embarked on their history-making flight, pilot Ken Hyde heads a thrilling attempt by aeronautic engineers to replicate the machine that the sibling inventors built to test their theories about flight. The project, supported by the Experimental Aircraft Association and Ford Motor Company, is made all the more challenging by the fact that the brothers left behind little documentation about their process.

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