[PN] Moving (5 March 2004)

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[This month the PN issues are irregular as I am moving to Osaka.
Note the changed e-mail address in my signature. Thank you - Ed]

* Reference Website

The Wireless Future And The Impact On Learning
Qualcomm, March 4, 2004
"Wireless growth and mobility, Wireless devices and services
The global focus on M-Learning, M-Learning Case Studies
Benefits and Challenges, How to begin your own M-Learning initiative
Presentation:
http://www.qualcomm.com/M-Learning/
Or see:
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/Article10779.phtml

* Periodical articles

Small and Smaller
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, New York Times, March 4, 2004
[The latest phase of globalization] "was produced by
three forces: First is the massive installation of undersea
fiber-optic cable and bandwidth (thanks to the dot-com
bubble) that have made it possible to globally transmit
and store huge amounts of data for almost nothing.
Second is the diffusion of PC's around the world. And
third (what I missed most) is the convergence of a
variety of software applications -- from e-mail, to
Google, to Microsoft Office, to specially designed
outsourcing programs -- that, when combined with
all those PC's and bandwidth, made it possible to
create global "work-flow platforms" [and hence,
white collar outsourcing along with the benefits- Ed.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/04/opinion/04FRIE.html

Terror in the Name of God
Tara Taghizadeh, PopMatters
AlterNet, February 27, 2004
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17981

Not Peace, but a Sword
WILLIAM SAFIRE, New York Times, March 1, 2004
Mel Gibson's reactionary version of the suffering of Jesus,
which provokes outrage and casts blame, fails Christian and Jew.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/opinion/01SAFI.html

Two possible Americas
Gianni Riotta, Corriere Della Sera, Italy, March 4, 2004
"There is a risk that the 2004 contest may induce paralysis.
No one may want to commit in Iraq as the world waits for
either George or John. Middle East talks may falter.
Negotiations on tariffs and subsidies may be frozen until
November. The U.N. and Kofi Annan may hedge, sizing up
their interlocutor. The great battle of ideas, faith, and
cultures between George Walker Bush and John Forbes
Kerry shows just how divided 21st-century America is,
but the rest of the planet's worried vigil also highlights
how interconnected interests are in the global age."
http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Esteri/Editoriali/Riotta/040304riotta_eng.shtml

President George Bush and the Gilded Age
Yoshi Tsurumi (Professor, City University of New York)
GLOCOM Platform, March 1, 2004
Japanese Institute of Global Communications
"At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush
was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class,
he declared that "people are poor because they are lazy."
He was opposed to labor unions, social security, environmental
protection, Medicare, and public schools. To him, the antitrust
watch dog, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities
Exchange Commission were unnecessary hindrances to
"free market competition." ... President Bush and his brain,
Karl Rove, are leading a radical revolution of destroying all
the democratic political, social, judiciary, and economic
institutions that both Democrats and moderate Republicans
had built together since Roosevelt's New Deal."
http://www.glocom.org/opinions/essays/20040301_tsurumi_president/index.html

Collegially, Steve McCarty
Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan (from April)
http://www.waoe.org/steve/epublist.html
E-mail (for Papyrus News): mccarty@mail.goo.ne.jp