Jamie Gass
IT MAY BE a modern heresy to take issue with Thomas Friedman's best-selling book on globalization, ''The World Is Flat," but Columbus's voyages washed away forever any notions of a level earth. These days, when we consider the competitiveness of US public schools and international trade concerns, we see again that the contour of our world is still very much ... (Full article: 679 words)
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