We are now heading for something similar, but on a larger scale.

We are on the brink of a historic opportunity, and therefore of a challenge.

Nonetheless, we are at both the end and beginning of something remarkable.

Intuitively, the middle class can see that this is the end of an era.

Indeed, 15 years after the disintegration of Soviet Union, a new catharsis seems underway, and Ukraine s Orange Revolution was part of that.

The urgent need to confront the threat of nuclear weapons is particularly relevant now as the Millennium Declaration becomes due for review.

With competition strong across the economy, they say that we can look forward to a generation of relatively high asset prices and relatively low real interest rates worldwide.

We are living according to some on the brink of a nanotechnology revolution, where matter is engineered at a scale thousands of times smaller than the eye can see, and familiar materials behave in unexpected ways.

Similarly, the claim that we are headed toward an inevitable clash of civilizations is sheer madness, propounded by people who think the worst of other groups but don t really know them through personal contact or shared experience.

We are living according to some on the brink of a nanotechnology revolution, where matter is engineered at a scale thousands of times smaller than the eye can see, and familiar materials behave in unexpected ways. This revolution, if successful, will turn our world upside down.