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globalization stories: 66 news summaries

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Fast Food Replaces Grandma's Cooking

Across the globe, traditional diets fade

Jun 2, 07 9:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Every nation has its traditional cuisines, but in today's fast-paced, globalized culture, cheap, fatty Westernized food is crowding out ancient preparations and presentations. Diets define who we are, Time reports, and in the modern world, once-unique food is becoming culturally homogenized. Global influences traditionally enriched flavors and techniques; today, the... More »

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food • nutrition • Spain • globalization • famine • world economy • Westernization • diet • fast food

Globalization Has a Hard Chocolate Shell

Hershey to shutter Calif. operation, cut thousands of jobs

May 31, 07 2:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a "global supply-chain transformation," Hershey will slash its domestic workforce and build a plant in Mexico. The chocolate giant projects savings of tens of millions of dollars a year, but the numbers don't mean much in Oakdale, Calif., where 575 employees will be our of their jobs... More »

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Mexico • globalization • outsourcing • Hershey • labor • employment • Milton Hershey

Rothko Fetches $73 Million

Record price for seminal modern work marks trend in art purchases

May 16, 07 8:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sotheby’s sold a Mark Rothko painting last night for $72.84 million, a record price for a piece of art created after World War II and a signal of a new boom in the market. Seller David Rockefeller bought the 7-foot-tall "White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender),"... More »

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art market • contemporary art • globalization • art • Andy Warhol • Sotheby's • Christie's • Damien Hirst • painting • Mark Rothko • Jasper Johns

For Blair,
Iraq Was No Anomaly

Brooks: War he co-authored was a disaster, but consistent with his values

May 11, 07 2:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - As Tony Blair prepares his exit from No. 10, the British left is already eulogizing the PM as a good man consigned by circumstance to a bad war. Not so, says David Brooks: The crux of Blair's political philosophy was a radical, religious communitarianism, which sired both his leftist leanings... More »

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Iraq • Tony Blair • globalization • war • John Macmurray • Britain • Iraq war

Accord Reached On Trade Deals

Dems, White House agree to labor and environmental protection in pacts

May 11, 07 6:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats have struck a deal with the White House that beefs up labor and environmental standards in pending free-trade pacts, clearing the way for agreements with Peru, Panama,  South Korea, and Colombia. Provisions will be written into future deals banning forced labor, child labor and workplace discrimination, the Washington ... More »

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Bush administration • globalization • Democratic Congress • environmentalism • labor • protection

India Short On Skilled Workers

Despite the tech boom, a third of the country
is still illiterate

Apr 9, 07 10:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Why is India short on skilled labor when it's teeming with Ph.D.s? While the staggering growth of its tech industry seems to have put the country in the running for the world’s next superpower, James Surowiecki observes that the Bengal tiger could be made of paper. Thirty... More »

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education • India • globalization • labor • literacy • tech industry

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