The current era offers a parallel.

History provides grounds for optimism.

Bloggers have attended both, and give us their opinions.

Algerian blogger Lameen Souag introduces us to a new language learning site.

Research and development offers little consolation.

United States Kentucky based Joi's Get Cooking, provides recipes for both Christmas cookies and Christmas doughnuts.

But India s example also provides a glimpse of what the world could achieve collectively.

Hollande s election offers us a valuable opportunity to meet the challenges that the EU faces.

For those who can't attend, VoxPopuli.kz presents some of the most interesting photos from the exhibition.

Though special, computer chess nevertheless offers both a window into silicon evolution and a barometer of how people might adapt to it.

Personalization is perhaps one of the biggest opportunities here as well, because it provides us with the potential of solving a 30 year old problem.

This project provides a sound basis on which to measure and compare different uses of scarce resources.

Some depression appears to be genetic, in which case genetic therapy may ultimately offer a solution.

There is no certain answer to that question, but perhaps economic history can offer some clues.

All we have are endless arguments, not practical alternatives to discuss and decide upon.

The breakdown of the Cancun talks may yet provide an opportunity for deeper reflection.

On Vox Populi, the photographer presents an aerial view of the city's landmarks captured during daytime and at night.

But promising everything to everyone provides no direction. In truth, having 169 priorities is like having none at all.

Recent history provides convincing evidence that policies based on a misrepresenting reality backfire.

Viktor Orban s Fidesz party, which could win Hungary s elections next spring, provides a particularly instructive example.

Fortunately, a proposal by UK Chancellor Gordon Brown might provide the needed global breakthrough.

In general, history, rather than economic theory, seems to offer a guide to interpreting wildly surprising and inherently unpredictable events.

It remains a sobering lesson, one that presents the media in the role of aggressor and violator, in contrast to their normal position as victim.

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We make sense of the world, and of our place in it, culturally and science provides more information for constructing that place.

Moreover, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy hasn t done much except hand out some special grants to the smartest immigrants from the suburbs.

After the speaker makes his or her opening statement, I will briefly suspend the formal meeting so that we can have an informal question and answer session with that guest speaker.

Voters there may also extend a disturbing paradox that has emerged in the region the more vigorous Asian democracy becomes, the more dysfunctional it is.

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It is hard to see how this type of theory either explains today s economic turbulence, or offers sound instruction about how to deal with it.

But these same leaders, including that supposedly stern mistress of the budget Angela Merkel, were arguing less than two years ago that public spending would provide a Keynesian way out of the crisis.

Before that decision is reached, the international community needs to provide humanitarian assistance and medical supplies to the rebels in eastern Libya. We must not allow them to be starved into submission.

Beyond a certain point which most of the world is still far from having reached the accumulation of wealth offers only substitute pleasures for the real losses to human relations that it exacts.

We believe that the report of the Secretary General provides us with a good basis for the comprehensive review of the progress made in the fulfilment of all commitments contained in the Millennium Declaration, including the internationally agreed development goals, and the global partnership required for their achievement.

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This provides a framework with which we can see the full price tag, incorporating all of the costs, benefits, and spin offs to society from using a limited amount of money in a particular way.

Please give us space and opportunities.

This provides a framework with which we can see the full price tag, incorporating all of the costs, benefits, and spin offs to society from using a limited amount of money in a particular way.

And he created these gorgeous buildings where you can see the sky, and where you can experience the sun, that give us a better life in the built environment, just because of the relevance of light in its brightness and also in its shadows.

The United Nations biennial Report on the World Social Situation (RWSS 2010), entitled Rethinking Poverty , makes a compelling case for rethinking poverty measurement and poverty reduction efforts.

The Tunisian people, led by a frustrated middle class that refused to be cowed, thus provide a healthy reminder of the steady and compelling forces driving the behavior of individuals and nations nowadays.

But our solid understanding of the fundamentals of global warming the base of our knowledge of climate science should provide reason enough to press on with the implementation of carbon free energy technologies.

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He provides some illustrative examples.

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