Global village or virtual shopping mall?

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Telecom giants like Comcast, AT&T, and NewsCorp, which provide broadband services, are making users pay extra for higher-bandwidth uses, such as downloading audio and video files. Broadband's exemption from nondiscrimination means that a telecom giant can not only force customers to use its Internet Service Providers services, such as its e-mail service and Web browser start page, but it can also discriminate against content and source that it does not like.

Government domestic functions, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Telephone Communication, Services information, Usage, Services, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Communications industry, Technology application, Government communications regulation, Broadband transmission, Broadband, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications policy

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Economic hit man

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John Perkins, a former 'economic hit man', has brought down entire countries with a calculator. His new book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Berrett-Kohler), is a conversion tale of sorts, the memoir of a Kennedy-era idealist and Peace Corp volunteer who fell into being an advance man for a new dynasty run by global bankers and CEOs.

Criticism and interpretation, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Book), Perkins, John (American writer)

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Islands of green: Ten projects that point the way to a cleaner urban future

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The model green city of the future already exists, but remains scattered in various urban areas around the world. The US city of Portland, Bogota in Colombia, and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil are among 10 cities across the globe where various projects are showing the way to a cleaner urban future.

Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development, Urban Planning Assistance, Analysis, City planning, Urban planning, Green Revolution

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