KBR Inc. started at its doorstep and then went halfway around the world this week to buy a turnaround management consultancy and an e-learning provider.

本周，KBR公司开始购买一家回车场管理咨询和电子学习提供商。

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That the Web is in fact world-wide means that e-learning is international and a truly egalitarian means of acquiring knowledge.

该网站实际上是全世界范围内意味着，电子学习是一个真正的国际和平等的方式获取知识。

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Therefore, we have e-learning and online shopping, the world seems to become smaller and smaller.

因此，我们有了网上学习及网上购物。世界好像变得越来越小了。

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Belief in e-learning, as it is often called, has so far weathered the downturn in the wider dotcom world.

ECONOMIST: Lessons of a virtual timetable