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Book: The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
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  1. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World is Flat: A Brief

    At heart, this perfect storm involves the collision of an older generation of American engineers and scientists who are retiring at the same time that a younger generation is not stepping into their shoes in sufficient numbers-and at the same time that the foreigners who used to make up the difference are either staying home or being kept out of America for security reasons.
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  2. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World is Flat: A Brief

    so anyone can drill into anyone else's past with a few thumb clicks on a PalmPilot."
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  3. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World is Flat: A Brief

    If the prospect of this flattening-and all of the pressures, dislocations, and opportunities accompanying it-makes you uneasy about the future, you are neither wrong nor alone.
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  4. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World is Flat: A Brief

    The agency was started by the tribe's economic development corporation, in an effort to diversify from its gambling casino called "WinnaVegas." You read this right: Plains Indians publishing Arabic brochures for Nebraskans who are importing machinery from Koreans to be customized by a South Sioux City company for customers in Kuwait.
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  5. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World is Flat: A Brief

    On any given day, according to UPS, 2 percent of the world's GDP can be found in UPS delivery trucks or package cars.
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  6. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World is Flat: A Brief

    We have grown addicted to our high salaries, and now we are really going to have to earn them," the CEO said.
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  7. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World is Flat: A Brief

    A Mexican newspaper recently ran a story about how the Converse shoe company was making tennis shoes in China using Mexican glue. "The whole article was about why are we giving them our glue," said Zedillo, "when the right attitude would be, How much more glue can we sell them? We still need to break some mental barriers.
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  8. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World is Flat: A Brief

    What makes America unique is not that it built MIT, or that its grads are generating economic growth and innovation, but that every state in the country has universities trying to do the same. "America has 4,000 colleges and universities," said Allan E. Goodman, president of the Institute of International Education. "The rest of the world combined has 7,768 institutions of higher education.
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  9. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World is Flat: A Brief

    But there is another statistic, much harder to measure, that I think is even more important and revealing: Does your society have more memories than dreams or more dreams than memories?
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  10. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World is Flat: A Brief

    today's workers need to approach the workplace much like athletes preparing for the Olympics, with one difference. "They have to prepare like someone who is training for the Olympics but doesn't know what sport they are going to enter,
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  11. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World is Flat: A Brief

    The job of the politician in America, whether at the local, state, or national level, should be, in good part, to help educate and explain to people what world they are living in and what they need to do if they want to thrive within it.
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  12. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World is Flat: A Brief

    To learn how to learn, you have to love learning-or you have to at least enjoy it-because so much learning is about being motivated to teach yourself.
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