GLOBAL NOTES #9
by Jerry Harris
. Bill Gates wants Bolivia on-line
Gates wrote Bolivia’s socialist president, Evo Morales, offering Microsoft’s help “in the goal of providing all of Bolivia’s people access” to the internet. Gates added, “I am excited to know that our campaign is contributing to your government’s plan” to promote education and economic improvements. Microsoft has just launched a new Word program in Quechua, one of the major languages spoken in Bolivia.
(Financial Times, 11/21/06, Gates seeks common ground with Morales)
. GM crops on over one billion acres
Genetically modified crops are growing at 10 percent a year. Over the past ten years GM crops have been (more…)
