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Do You Want the Good News First?

New York Times by Thomas L. Friedman | May. 19, 2012 (Opinion)

I’ve spent the last week traveling to two of America’s greatest innovation hubs — Silicon Valley and Seattle — and the trip left me feeling a combination of exhilaration and dread. The excitement comes from not only seeing the stunning amount of innovation emerging from the ground up, but from seeing the new tools coming on stream that are, as Amazon.com’s founder, Jeff Bezos, put it to me, “eliminating all the gatekeepers” — making it ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Barry Grossheim - May 19, 2012 - 7:31 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Barry Grossheim (review), Fabrice Florin (review), yunshan (review), Sirajul Islam (review), lucy zhang (review), ikram (review), li (review)
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - May 20, 2012 - 2:53 PM PDT
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Sirajul Islam
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 by Sirajul Islam - May. 21, 2012

Tom Friedman's column is powerful and thought-provoking. But one can go further. It's perhaps not just the quality, and quantity, of the university education that is suffering in the U.S.. It's the education in the public schools as well. Mr. Friedman quotes a source who says that government must 'medicate, educate, and incarcerate.' It may do one other thing: Regulate.

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yunshan
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by yunshan - May. 21, 2012

I like itver much

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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - May. 20, 2012
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Barry Grossheim
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 by Barry Grossheim - May. 20, 2012
Barry posted this story.
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li
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by li - May. 25, 2012

good journalism .i want the good news first.

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ikram
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by ikram - May. 23, 2012

good

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lucy zhang
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 by lucy zhang - May. 21, 2012

I think the author say is right, and so many people want to get the good news first, so this article is so good.

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