This is an excellent article and gives us pause to think and rethink accepted principles on how to lift people out of poverty and generate progress for all. Here are some gems of facts and questions in the article:

- Globalization does improve standards of living, and World Bank will report that the proportion of people living on less than $2 a day has shrank from 67% in 1981 to 47% in 2004. However, 59% of the planet’s population lives in countries with widening inequality, while only just 5% of the countries have the disparity declining.

In short, the gap between the haves and the havenots is worsening.

- People are threatened with this globalization, and this could well slow it down. A 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Survey said that a majority in every country except Japan, South Korea and the Palestines now want immigration reduced.

- Pretty soon, hopefully, and yet with challenge, the battle may soon be less about the black-white divide as it will become a battle of the have vs have-nots.

Poverty Trap - TIME

One of the defining phenomena of our age is migration. As the world shrinks and economies integrate, national boundaries become less important. At least, that’s the theory. In reality, there is an élite of international professionals who do live comparable and seamlessly connected lives, whether they be in New York City or New Delhi, Johannesburg or Tokyo. But among the world’s poor, things do not go as smoothly.

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Its stupid! Its dangerous! people should not be doing it, andthey shold be warned….. so says my head.

But that said, yes, I must admit, I still do it…..

Slashdot | Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel

TIME interviews 21-year-old Taylor Leming, creator of the 600-member Facebook group I Text Message People While Driving and I Haven’t Crashed Yet!
While Alaska and Louisiana just became the latest states to pass laws
banning text-messaging behind the wheel, Virginia resident Leming is
still happily texting away while driving despite some near-accidents.
‘Sometimes it just seems easier to text ‘Be there in 5′ instead of
calling,’ explains Taylor.”

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the sector is very challenged. But the CEOs pay for a challenged sector is not.

The highest paid telecommunications company CEOs. - NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Hesse, the chief executive of Sprint Nextel Corp., topped the list of the most highly paid chief executives in the telecommunications sector.
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If Microsoft and Yahoo really gets a deal through, then Google will just make an extra $250 million as Yahoo pays that penalty?

Emphasizing that the agreement does not rule out a Microsoft takeover will likely add to speculation that talks between the two companies are quietly ongoing.
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Great book review…. As they say, never judge a book by its movie…

Chronicles of Narnia is now adopted with the same scale as the Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings Series… but Chronicles of Narnia is a much thinner book — normally probably less than a fifth of the other chronologies — the rich details could just be filled in by the movie scripts.

It’s been ages since I’ve read the Narnia books so when I went to watch “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”, it was like stepping into the story fresh. That, I think, was a good thing. Rather than viewing this as an adaptation of the book, I thought to look at it as a sequel to the first film. Now, this being both an adaptation of a book and a sequel, what’s the difference? It’s really one of expectations.
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At the end, what matters is how Microsoft will fare without Bill.

Ballmer and Gates bid farewell with tears - Yahoo! News

On his final full day at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates went on stage to reminisce with his longtime friend Steve Ballmer, and neither man could hold back tears as Ballmer handed Gates a large scrapbook as a farewell present.

How can they do that with over 100 million users?

I think it is important to push for better quality of ideas, rather than better and correct ways to express a bad idea?

Facebook to users: Let’s cut grammatical errors - Yahoo! News

The online hangout Facebook is getting more serious about grammar. No more should users see jarringly incorrect declarations such as “Debbie changed their profile picture.”

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A company must know which of their features or services is more valued… in this case, replies was.

anyhow, the reason I’m linking to this is that there is an absolutely fantastic picture there of a traffic jam. it is a poster image of what happens when there are misguided policies that absolutely just jams up the way things are supposed to work.

A key feature of Twitter has been down most of this week: Replies. The core Twitter service itself is alive, but the team …
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