The World Trade Organization finally found a safe place to hold a meeting. Doha, a city in the tiny Persian Gulf sheikhdom of Qatar, is only 1,000 miles from Afghanistan. It is a 9,000-mile flight from Seattle, where two years ago street protestors frustrated the WTO’s attempt to set an agenda for another “round” of […]
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Bibliosophy
The Business of Books: How International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read, Andre Shiffrin. Verso, 181 pages, $23.00. Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future, Jason Epstein. W. W. Norton, 188 pages, $21.95. Once upon a time, the major American publishing houses could be counted on to bring controversial new ideas, […]
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Using the Brain
A User’s Guide to the Brain: Personality, Behavior and the Four Theaters of the Brain, John Ratey. Pantheon Books, 416 pages, $27.50. John Ratey, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has written several books on neurological disorders. The most incisive and far-reaching of these is Shadow Syndromes, his 1997 work that argues […]
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Investing on the Frontier: How the U.S. Can Reclaim High-Tech Leadership
Why we need a civilian technology policy.
