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Newsweek’s Issues
2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10205943/site/newsweek/ The
Earth's Learning Curve The scientific
revolution that began 300 years ago has accelerated exponentially. It is moving
so fast that the spread of knowledge defines our times. Nations that learn
faster will prosper. But it will take something else—wisdom—to endure. By
Fareed Zakaria The World Is Tilted The popular idea that America is one step smarter and more
sophisticated than its rivals is a dangerous myth, and a threat to the global
economy. By Clyde Prestowitz • The New Rich-Rich Gap The wealthy class is splitting into two elites, one national
and threatened by outsourcing, the other international and profiting wildly
from globalization. By Robert B. Reich • Michael Kremer on Making Drugs Affordable Every year, millions of poor people die of diseases like
malaria because big drug companies have little incentive to produce affordable
cures. Here’s one possible solution. By Rana Foroohar • We Can Whip AIDS Science is keeping pace with HIV infection. But the
very therapeutic advances that have made it treatable have lulled us into
complacency. By Robert C. Gallo, M.D. • Sputnik Was Nothing The calls for a crash program to defend our superpower
status are even more urgent now. By Louis V. Gerstner Jr. • The Big Blue Yonder By giving away hundreds of its patents, IBM has turned a
philosophical movement into a tangible business strategy. The company with the
most to lose is Microsoft. A close-up look at the software war. By Karen Lowry
Miller • The Information Puzzle Some observers are perplexed, and others infuriated, by what
they think is IBM's contradictory stand on innovation. So let me explain. By
Sam Palmisano • Google: Ten Golden Rules Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to
business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google.
By Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian • Unintelligent Design U.S. schools have been invaded by second-rate theorists.
This new creationism is not only bad science; it is bad logic, bad philosophy
and even bad theology. By Richard Dawkins |
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