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| Courageous Arab Thinkers by Jeremy at 11:58 am EDT, Oct 19, 2003 | |||
As Lawrence Summers, Harvard's president, likes to say, "One good example is worth a thousand theories." Iraq -- maybe -- could be that example. A group of courageous Arab social scientists decided to begin fighting the war of ideas for the Arab future ... Tomorrow, they will unveil the Arab Human Development Report 2003, which focuses on the need to rebuild Arab "knowledge societies." I sense it will be a bombshell. Arab region: 18 computers per 1,000 people. 371 R&D scientists and engineers per million citizens. ... Tons of foreign technology is imported, but it's never really internalized ... Tom Friedman on Arab society in the Sunday New York Times. | |||
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