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A Marble Story
(Short Story)
6-04-2006
by Wilson
Just imagine that you are an expert in marbles, yes marbles. Imagine that you have spent years studying them meticulously; history, designs, types, colors, composition, games; and your obsession for them had driven you to commit your life’s...
Behave or Beware: Immigrants, the Nanny McPhee of Globalization
(Opinions)
30-11-2006
by Wilson
The term ‘globalization’ has been already embedded in the social fabric: media, fashion, environment, politics, economy, education, culture and everyday life talk. Everyone seems to be more aware about the effects of local events across...
Crab's Law or the Physics of Immigration
(Opinions)
25-05-2006
by Wilson
I remember the first time I saw the Pacific Ocean in the coast of Ecuador. A young man had several buckets full of crabs on display for sale under a tiny palm tree kiosk. Interestingly enough the crabs were alive and untied, having free movement...
Less play, more work
(Opinions)
21-11-2007
by Wilson
When you see poor people in undeveloped countries, talking on cell phones, text messaging, sending e-mails, surfing the web, using chat rooms, blogging, tagging, playing video games, downloading or uploading music, pictures and videos; you may ask...
Migration: the New Storytelling?
(Opinions)
16-01-2007
by Wilson
You and I have heard that not long ago our ancestors used to gather around the fire pit every night and listen to the elders tell stories, most of which were fascinating for they brought always amazing adventures lived by people like us, sometimes...
Prevention Equals Peace
(Opinions)
2-08-2007
by Wilson
If we visualize side by side, in real time, a young professional working in Wall Street, a young farm worker crossing the border in the Arizona desert, a young refugee from Sudan working in a hotel in Omaha, and a young Indian engineer working in...
Responsible Citzenship for Good Governance
(Opinions)
10-05-2006
by Wilson
A few weeks ago while visiting my home country (in Latin America), I stumbled over a journal devoted to study the fact that my country was ungovernable. I wondered, what did these pundits mean by describing page after page, the lack of governance...
Skipping Childhood
(Opinions)
27-06-2007
by Wilson
Millions of children have been poured into the streets of all urban centers in the developing world; they are the by-product of the absorbent modern society that often centralizes jobs, housing and services, where those who cannot afford it do not...
The tipping point for an open society
(Opinions)
11-05-2007
by Wilson
You do not need to be an expert in natural sciences to understand that biodiversity is essential for the preservation of life on earth. Diversity makes nature smart and rich. Likewise you could easily argue that cultural diversity may well be...
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