Or has the web changed all that, bringing the world together more than ever before?
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"We will just have to wait and see, " says the man who was a driving force in bringing the World Cup to the continent for the first time.
They are the fingers and eyes and noses of the computer, bringing the world (be it a car crash, pressure in a fuel line, or light in a fiber-optic network) into the boxed, insular space that sits quietly on desktops.
So, I feel like we achieved a lot of that and I feel that in the long run, we took this challenging idea of starting 100 years prior and bringing the world to life, bringing the Wild West of outer space to life.
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"Planning and orchestrating this rescue effort has addressed the implications of the 24-hour news cycle and the media's role in bringing the world together as a community of compassionate watchers, while giving the rescued miners and their families a safe, time-constricted space in the corresponding media spotlight, " said Graves, director of the Dart Society, a nonprofit organization of journalists.
Bringing the developer world into banking could clearly be the kind of innovation accelerator that banks badly need.
Having this in mind, we at RockThePost are committed to democratize the process of fundraising by bringing the offline world online and streamlining it.
It's given me a new appreciation for doctors who successfully deliver thousands of babies, and most of all for the heroics of women -- especially my wife -- in that moment, suffering through all they suffer through for the sake of bringing life into the world.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon struck a personal note in his opening remarks, as he recalled his childhood as a displaced person at the close of World War II when his mother, like other women enjoyed little help bringing children into the world.
Emma added that she and her husband, Andrew, 34, would talk to their daughter - whose middle name of Trinity is a reference to the fact that three people were involved in bringing her into the world - about the situation when she was older.
Red Sox billionaire owner John Henry bought the MLB franchise in 2002 and reversed the curse, bringing two World Series titles to the team in 2004 and 2007.
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"As you will see by our bid book we have a lot of passion for the game and bringing the biggest sporting event in the world to our country, " said Beckham.
Childspring International, an Atlanta-based Christian nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing sick children from the developing world to the United States for medical care, offered assistance in bringing Noor and her family to Atlanta for treatment at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
Like the first edition of "Rossum's Universal Robots, " a 1920 play by Czech writer Karel Capek that is credited with bringing the word "robot" to the world.
In 2003 he heard the tale of a cadre of crack engineers who had quit Cray Research, the old supercomputer maker, to explore bringing powerful features down to the world of cheap servers.
Indeed, Tachi Yamada, the head of the Gates Foundation's Global Health Programme, suggests bringing in volunteers from the rich world on a temporary basis, to clear the backlog.
Targeting the Boston Marathon was "all the more appalling for taking place at an event renowned for bringing people together from around the world in a spirit of sportsmanship and harmony", he added.
Journe boutiques in New York and Beijing, bringing the total around the world to six.
Into the mess stepped Plebys International , a Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. investment firm dedicated to bringing technology to the Third World.
Into the mess stepped Plebys International, an investment firm in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, that is dedicated to bringing technology to the Third World.
Pierre and Pam Omidyar are bringing electricity to the developing world.
The direct aim of this strategy would not be a less bad climate, but the more measurable goal of bringing energy to those in the developing world who are currently starved of it.
As for Pop Ups, one of the originals, LudoBites, has virtually become a national obsession, with Chef Ludovic Lefebvre traveling around the country bringing world-class food to new customers who may not have had it widely available before.
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