Iran is the only state in the world today that operates, controversially, a legal, commercial market in organs and then only for the benefit of its citizens.

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The parallel between the United States then and China and India today is uncanny, not only in terms of long-term growth prospects, but also in the potential for short-term turmoil.

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The company only had two toll-free numbers back then, versus 1, 500 distinct ones today.

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However, if the implication is that businesses today only thrive because of previously established infrastructure which they had no hand in, then, by extension, the implication is also government built the infrastructure which businesses had no hand in.

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The United States Oil and iPath products, the only ones around since last summer, are down from then because of the contango and because crude prices today are lower than in mid-2006.

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But on today's estimates only 1.05m suitably qualified people will graduate from college between now and then, so there will be a shortfall of nearly 500, 000, with business-processing the worst affected.

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