I usually have a lot of bad things to say about airlines. I don’t badmouth any American based airlines anymore because there’s nothing left really to badmouth anymore. And I do fly El Al, even though they use a First World War model Boeing 767 on the Tel Aviv Beijing line (and charge an arm [...]
One in two Americans is below the poverty line. One in two Americans will own a Smartphone by Christmas 2011. Would you care to guess what’s the intersection between the two groups if any? Does your intuition suggest that the overlap is small or non-existent?
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I’ve been watching the troubled Middle East and other Muslim countries with awe in the last year. Before I continue, let me put one thing right on table. I was born and raised in Israel, I lived in the United States of America for a dozen years, and in The People’s Republic of China for [...]
Two articles I saw in as many days made me think about the situation of the global economy. One was on the Wall Street Journal, titled “U.S. Farmers Reclaim Land From Developers”, was talking about farmers reclaiming land from developers for the purpose of agriculture (Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2011, link – http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204621904577018201607304964.html). The [...]
Many TV programs discussing the John. F. Kennedy assassination started with the question: “Where were you, and what you were doing when you heard about Kennedy’s assassination?”. And not surprisingly, almost everyone did remember precisely where he was and what he was doing. Amazingly, when I was writing this piece, I had a strong urge [...]
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