Bringing Up The Rear
GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS INDEX RANKINGS 2006 (2005) 1: Switzerland (4) 2: Finland: (2) 3: Sweden (7) 4: Denmark (3) 5: Singapore (5) 6: United States (1) 7: Japan (10) 8: Germany (6) 9: Netherlands (11)...
Monthly Archive: January 2006
Lima Beens
We got back from our South American trek. Quite illuminating. It’s the furthest south I’ve been on the earth and it was cool to see the moon “upside down”, with the dark “seas” flipped...
Top of the World!
Went to Machu Picchu – it is as extraordinary as I had imagined. Missed our Amazonian jungle connection – me and Lisa got a dose of some nasty parasites. Next stop – Buenos Aires.
Exit Strategy
Unless the assassination target is prominent, or the number of victims rises to at least the high single digits, such events barely rate a mention in Western news reports. Yet the most reliable estimates...