Even his neighbors find his devotion a bit unbelievable. "It is early January and I am on my way home with the sail bag over one shoulder and the camera case over the other when I run into a neighbor," Colbing relates. "'You can't possibly have been out to sea today!' is his astonished remark. 'Sailing! You can't expect me to believe you've got a boat afloat now, in the depths of winter? Boats are supposed to be hauled out at the beginning of October! And it's twelve degrees below... You camped out there? Yeah, right, don't try that one on me!
In everyday conversations, people express their worries about unemployment and inequality, about the brain drain and immigration, about civil conflict or environmental damage. What many people do not know is that international trade can be part of the solution. In countries where opportunities for development are scarce, trade matters even more in the fight against poverty. Without wider public support and understanding of international trade and development issues, it will be hard for initiatives to succeed. People who could speak out about the benefits of trade have neither done it well nor gone beyond limited circles. Trade can be a complex issue to explain. Leaders in trade, development and finance in least developed countries do not always communicate properly with each other, for ...
The protection of intellectual property rights has become one of the most difficult challenges for creative industries, affecting governments, artists, creators, analysts and agencies alike. The most significant challenge is how legal and policy frameworks can keep up with the fast-paced and constantly evolving digital world. While copyright remains the fundamental guarantor of the rights of authorship, the Creative Commons movement is a fast-growing area of interest in the protection of intellectual property rights for artists, creators and educators. Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to making it easier to share creative works within the rules of copyright. Through providing free licenses and other tools, CC provides a mechanism for creators to entice the cap...
I don't agree. I think in Scandinavia we're used to giving and helping others. We look after each other. In school when you're done with an assignment, you help your fellow students finish theirs. People don't get labeled in Scandinavia - whether your parents are doctors or factory workers, you go to the same school, you ride the same buses, you're friends. Here you get labeled very early on, and then you're rarely given a second chance. "I'll tell you what," she says. "I think it's good that I have an accent. They do see me as different, but not because of my skin color, but because I'm from somewhere else. Most of them have no idea where Norway is, but that doesn't matter, the fact is that I am not a white American with all that that implies in form of slave history and so forth. Li...
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