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Wired
November 27, 2007
Lisa Katayama |
Rights Watchman Uses Satellite Photography to Monitor Abuse in Crisis Zones How a geo-information specialist has been using satellite photography to help NGOs document atrocities in isolated crisis zones.   |
Reason
November 2007
Kerry Howley |
Reconstruction Mess Could anyone have predicted the failures of reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan? According to a new working paper, the public choice theorist Gordon Tullock did just that -- in 1965. |
Reason
November 2007
Rogier van Bakel |
'The Trouble Is the West' Best-selling memoirist and former member of the Dutch parliament, Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam, immigration, civil liberties, and the fate of the West. |
BusinessWeek
November 12, 2007
Jack Ewing |
The New Financial Heavyweights Sovereign funds totaling $2.8 trillion from China, the Mideast, and elsewhere are redrawing the global investment map. |
CFO
November 1, 2007
Vincent Ryan |
China's Next Miracle? After 15 years of excluding them, the Fed mulls reopening U.S. doors to Chinese banks. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
Robert N. Charette |
Open-Source Warfare Terrorists are leveraging information technology to organize, recruit, and learn -- and the West is struggling to keep up. The conflict in Iraq highlights how the open global access to increasingly powerful technological tools is in effect allowing small groups to declare war on nations. |
Chemistry World
October 29, 2007
Arthur Rogers |
Deal to Allow Poor Nations Better Access to Cheap Drugs MEPs belatedly approved EU ratification of a 2005 World Trade Organization protocol on compulsory licensing -- potentially paving the way for developing countries to order generic drugs from manufacturers abroad without infringing patent rights. |
Fast Company
November 1, 2007
Jonathan Green |
Nightmare in Boomtown Mark Seidenfeld was just another American businessman cashing in on the post-Soviet boom. Then one bad deal in Kazakhstan sent his life into a spiral of extortion, Siberian prison, and frontier justice. A cautionary tale. |
National Defense
November 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Military Identity Technology Leaps Ahead of Policies To help fight the Iraqi insurgency, the Defense Department has pushed biometric collection technologies into the field. But policies on how best to use them are not fully developed. |
IDB America
September 2007 |
IDB Supports Program to Improve Customs Operations in Uruguay The Inter-American Development Bank approved a $11.6 million loan to Uruguay for a program that will modernize the country's customs bureau to enhance its efficiency and quality as a compliance agency and facilitator of international trade. |
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