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Global Growth — U.S. Versus the World

How long will it take for the world to catch up with impressive U.S. economic growth?

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China’s Olympic Coup

What is China doing to prepare for the 2008 Beijing Games?

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When the World Last Met at Genoa

Remember the last time before the 2001 G8 Summit when the world’s major powers met in Genoa, Italy? You need to go all the way back to the year 1922. Instead of anti-globalization protesters, the unpleasant surprise of that summit was a special deal concluded between the newly created Soviet Union and Weimar Germany. World diplomacy was rocked harder than even the disruptions by today’s protesters.

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The Africa of the Past

How did traditional Congolese ways of life exist alongside the harsher reality of colonialism?

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The Unappreciated Euro

Should the world be concerned over the fall of the euro?

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