[From the global culture blog] If the post a brighter future revealed the possible destinations for the masses of migrants moving around the planet, this image from Natural Resources Conservation Service within the United States Department of Agriculture may tell us where they come from. A global population density map represents the number of people per square kilometer around the globe.

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In the past month, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has announced the nationalization of his country’s electricity and telecommunication industries, seized control of the central bank, barred the renewal of the license of the nation’s oldest independent television station, and assumed the power to rule by presidential decree. But as Chávez consolidates his economic and political [...]
China has made impressive strides in ending illiteracy and increasing number of high school graduates and new universities, but China will find it hard to produce culture of innovation it will need to dominate 21st century as long as it curtails people’s ability to imagine and try anything they want.
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