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POPSThe End of Travel Piece by Allen Salking in IHT on environmental 'tourism of doom'. The truth is the world has gotten smaller because we've conquered physical distance but we haven't understand the implications of that. So now, in less than a generation, we've moved from traveling the globe in a day to morbidly gazing at the train crash our planet has become.
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POPSTiny Tim States A piece from Roger Cohen about Belgium paints a picture of three big countries, and thousands of small ones. I tend to agree it's desirable to be small, but only when you feel safe.
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POPSBack to the 60s More and more I feel we're wandering, dazed, back to the 1960s as we slowly wake up to the fact that capitalism stretches the fabric of society top to bottom. Here's a piece from NYT's Richard Bernstein