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The Paper Route

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This chapter is mostly about his experiences in the States, but very interesting as an Indian view on the USA

p.69

..My school was 80% "white" when I arrived and 80 percent black" when I left three years later"..
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The classroom was filled eith lathes, tools and machines, and we learned to work with our hands. We learned to repair a window, make a table, unclog a sink. At the end of the year , we ha lost our fear of technology.

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If we were once rich, why are we now poor?

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p.54
G.W.F.Hegel, the great German Philosopher, wrote: From the most ancient times downwards, all nations have directed their wishes and longings to gaining access to the treasures of this land of marvels, the most costly which the Earth presents...The way, by which these treasures have passed to the West, has at all times been a matter of world-historical importance....

Blind Then, Blind Now

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Nehru spoke at length about his vision of India....At the sam time, he explained, he wanted to preserve democratic Freedoms; he did not want India to become a communist society like Russia and China. Thus he called his system a "mixed economy", which could combine the best of socialism and capitalism....When ordinary human beings err, is is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations
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Europe Africa Concertation Meeting

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I am today participating in the Europe-Africa concertation meeting. This meeting is organized by the START IST, project.
The START program is a specific support action within FP6 for promoting to get Subsaharan African Organizations into the FP7 Framework programs. There are 1 European and 2 African Partners in Start. It is a 2 years program and they will publish in October 2007 a strategic Framework.

Poor Italy - Any Hope?

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"This countries worst maladies are the rejection of rules and an aversion to change" says Guido Rossi, the new Chairman of Telecom Italia. Rossi is a well known lawyer and business manager. Lack of civil sense and an outrageous conservatism - this is what hampers any development in Italy and which had brought Italy to the very end of the queue of all countries in the European Union

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