But my dear, of the new seven wonders of the world - and this was an initiative started by a Swiss corporation to choose the new seven wonders - not one of them is African.
It included pictures of me selling my company, starting a charity to empower others, visiting the Seven Wonders of the World, and it even included a photo of me getting married over in Africa (where my parents were living, doing humanitarian service at the time).
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Often listed as one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the falls and their surrounding gorges are a truly awe-inspiring sight.
Yet if a human destroys the wonders of creation, the beauty of the natural world, then anthropocentric society calls such people loggers, miners, developers, engineers, and businessmen.
Still, nothing could dampen the thrilling views on the west and north sides of the building (especially from the 2, 000-plus-square-foot Kohinoor Suite), which take in the entirety of the Queen's Necklace, the stretch of Marine Drive running along the city's Back Bay that, when lit up, truly resembles a vast string of pearls--one of the urban wonders of the world.
It turns World Park, in Beijing, a theme park of tacky reduced-scale reproductions of cultural wonders (from the Taj Mahal to the Eiffel Tower), into a derisive microcosm of China.
The result, the work of more than 20 employees, was a 100-page report, more graphics than text, extolling the wonders of the world's emerging markets, among which none shone more brightly than China.
"The chairman has done the voice over IP industry wonders, " says Jeff Pulver, chief executive of Free World Dialup , a VoIP service provider which in February was the subject of one of Powell's salutary FCC rulings.
But even as the adventures of a bespectacled boy wizard have proven that the world still has an appetite for the written word, one wonders if Hodgman still sees a place for the publishing world he abandoned a decade or so ago to great success.
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