But to do that job effectively, UNESCO may need to overcome its own cultural aversion to parlaying with the private sector.

ECONOMIST: UNESCO is better at naming enemies than finding friends

Phoenix has overcome weaknesses in its own education system by using talent nurtured elsewhere.

ECONOMIST: Urban boosterism

India and China should keep trundling along. (The economic battle will be among their states and provinces.) Tackling old inefficiencies, Japan has years of gains ahead, and stubborn South Korea will find a way to overcome each obstacle it puts in its own way.

FORBES: Where the Action Is

To make the case to these buyers, in my view, Hadoop has to overcome the weaknesses outlined, get out of its own way, and get better and more powerful much faster.

FORBES: Can Hadoop Survive its Weird Beginning?

Only one predator or, rather, parasite is known to have overcome this anti-resonance strategy, by developing its own 17-year clock.

ECONOMIST: The 17-year cicadas are about to emerge in force

But their natural enmity was overcome by envy: They had all seen Williams Communications win Wall Street cachet by parlaying its own rights-of-way into first one fiber web (Wiltel) and then a second.

FORBES: Other People's Money

But their natural enmity was overcome by envy: They all had seen rival Williams Communications win Wall Street cachet by parlaying its own rights-of-way into first one fiber web (Wiltel) and then a second.

FORBES: Other People's Money