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Seeing Ourselves As Our Neighbors See Us
North of us lies the world's longest undefended international border, which Canadian Margaret Atwood calls the world's longest one-way mirror. We're...
score:9, 08/05/1989, ,
Singapore: a Mirror That Reflects the American Dream
Singapore doesn't intend to be a place that makes you think. It would rather make you spend. From its splendid airport shops to its...
score:9, 05/18/1988, ,
An Endangered Species Can Be Fun
I couldn't believe it when I saw the item on the town meeting agenda: "Article 26. To see if the town will vote to...
score:9, 07/10/1986, ,
Portugal's Generation of Hope
How is it that every now and then a society lets a whole generation get the idea that it can really solve problems? Portugal, though...
score:9, 07/24/1986, ,
Six Hungarians Discover America
I have just had the privilege of escorting six Hungarian visitors on a cross-country tour of the United States. All six are agricultural experts...
score:9, 08/28/1986, ,
The Philippines After the Revolution -- One Step at a Time
This year we're celebrating the 200th anniversary of our constitution a full eleven years after the 200th anniversary of our revolution. It took the...
score:9, 07/23/1987, ,
Jozsef Discovers America
"How many telephone equipment there are in this house?" Jozsef asked on his second day in America, his second day in the West. I was...
score:9, 10/01/1987, ,
A Nobel Peace Prize for Costa Rica
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has a way of using the prize itself to strengthen ongoing peace efforts. That is one reason why it awarded...
score:9, 11/05/1987, ,
Singapore Leads the Good Life Under a Benevolent Dictator
Singapore has achieved the American dream, but not in the American way. It is a prosperous, clean city, with imposing skyscrapers and glittering shopping centers...
score:9, 05/05/1988, ,
The Strength of the Nation is in Its Two-Headed Nails
I am proud of my country in many ways, but it never occurred to me to be proud of its two-headed staging nails, until...
score:9, 06/23/1988, ,
Around the World in 24 Days
Boston - Singapore - Bangkok - Bombay - Nairobi - Dar Es Salaam - Jeddah - Kassel - Zurich - Boston, all in 24 days. Only this wondrous age of technology makes such a...
score:9, 04/28/1988, ,
What Americans Don't Understand About the Soviet Union
"You know I write newspaper columns," I said to my friend Alexei, who is a Soviet economist. "How about helping me with my next one...
score:9, 09/09/1988, ,
Astronauts and Cosmonauts Tell Us About Home
One of my objections to the manned space program has always been that the cosmonauts and astronauts are so terse and technocratic. They say "Roger...
score:9, 10/20/1988, ,
Small Miracles in the Philippines
One could interpret the recent shooting of an American serviceman near Manila as one more example of how things are falling apart in the Philippines...
score:9, 04/27/1989, ,
Seeing Ourselves As Our Neighbors See Us
Lots of Canadians read Time every week, but few Americans read Maclean's, and that's a shame. If we took the time to see...
score:9, 08/03/1989, ,
Environment and Freedom in Eastern Europe
In East Europe the environment is a hot topic these days, because, like nearly everything else there, it is a political topic. To be an...
score:9, 09/14/1989, ,
Romania Still Stands -- and So Do Other Dictatorships
Until a few weeks ago if you'd asked me whether I'd ever visited a country so unpleasant that I would never want to...
score:9, 11/30/1989, ,
Lessons from the Soft Path: Denmark's Energy Policy
The energy wars are back. Not the ones in the deserts of the Middle East, but the ones in national capitals the oil-using world...
score:9, 09/13/1990, ,
Fighting for Democracy Abroad and at Home
Last week at a conference in Hungary a Lithuanian showed pictures of the people of Vilnius bringing their vehicles to block their TV transmitter from...
score:9, 09/19/1991, ,
Some Practical Aid for the (Former) Soviet Union
The United States is planning to respond to Mikhail Gorbachev's repeated appeals for economic aid by sending in teams of experts in accounting, marketing...
score:9, 10/03/1991, ,
Ho Humbug!
A neighbor of mine was in the post office the other day complaining about the holidays. Commercialism, crowded stores, too much to eat, too much...
score:9, 12/26/1991, ,
How to Stop a Bloody Run of History?
Almost thirty years ago I spent my honeymoon in Bosnia-Herzegovina. My husband and I and a group of Europeans kayaked the Drina river, which...
score:9, 08/13/1992, ,
Haiti Need Not Remain the Basket Case of the Western Hemisphere
Poor Haiti. Intractable Haiti. Haiti, oppressed by Papa Doc, Baby Doc, and now a pack of even more rapacious generals. Haiti, the problem that keeps...
score:9, 07/14/1994, ,
The Balkans Are Driven by Their Leaders, Not Their History
A friend who is helping some Bosnian refugees knew I had spent time in what was once Yugoslavia, so she asked me to explain the...
score:9, 08/24/1995, ,
An Instrument Panel to Help Seattle Fly Sustainably
When you fly a plane, you need an instrument panel in front of you, with lights and dials telling you how well the parts are...
score:9, 11/23/1995, ,
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THINKING IN SYSTEMS – THE BOOK
"In Dana Meadows's brilliantly integrative worldview, everything causes everything else; cause and effect loop back on themselves. She was the clearest thinker and writer co-creating the art and science of systems dynamics, and Thinking in Systems distills her lifetime of wisdom. This clear, fun-to-read synthesis will help diverse readers everywhere to grasp and harness how our complex world really works."
—Amory B. Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
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