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Fall 2007 Contest Winning Essay

Previously filed under: General Globalization
William Bruns argues that globalization isn't a new phenomena as many claim, but part of the natural evolution of humans.

From the Archives

Fall Essay Contest 2007: Second Place

Previously filed under: General Globalization
Bethney Ross takes a look at the organizations that use globalization in positive and negative ways.

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Talking about an 'evergreen revolution'

International Herald Tribune - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 05:52
Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine, and with a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for an agricultural revolution - this time a perpetual one.

Stocks advance as oil falls, dollar advances

The Associated Press - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 13:30
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street rallied Monday as oil prices, supported by a stronger dollar, fell back and alleviated some of investors' concerns about accelerating inflation. The Dow Jones industrials gained 130 points....

China quake death toll rises to about 10,000

The Associated Press - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 21:14
CHENGDU, China (AP) -- A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades....

Death toll rises as Lebanon simmers

CNN - Sun, 05/11/2008 - 22:34
At least 44 people have been killed and more than 140 wounded in four days of clashes between pro- and anti-government supporters in Lebanon, according to the war-torn country's Internal Security Forces.

The dollar's dominance called into question

International Herald Tribune - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 14:51
What are the chances that a day of reckoning is coming, when the dollar would be so weak that America would have to play by the rules that apply to every other country?

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