As technological progress allows the exchange of goods and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of trading partners, other people become more valuable alive than dead.

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Negotiations that three European states - France, Germany and Britain - hope will induce Tehran to give up its nuclear ambitions in exchange for political, economic and technological concessions are going nowhere.

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There is no organizational chart, but there is a strong technological underpinning, including an Intranet where charities can exchange methods.

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