Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

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in the current issue ...

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Cover Story

The Center of the World
When Michael Jordan retired from basketball, the NBA's ratings began to fall. To bounce back, the league expanded overseas and lured foreign talent to the game. And no one is as big an ambassador as Yao Ming. The NBA sees its salvation in the 7-foot, 6-inch Chinese sensation?-and in 1.3 billion hoops fans.
By Brook Larmer

Globalization at Work
35 Years Later... In an anniversary special, FP offers its picks for what mattered most?-and least?-during the last three and a half decades.


Think Again: Human Trafficking
Judging by news headlines, human trafficking is a recent phenomenon. In fact, the coerced movement of people across borders is as old as the laws of supply and demand. What is new is the volume of the traffic?-and the realization that we have done little to stem the tide.
By David A. Feingold

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
The world is a very different place than when FP arrived on the scene 35 years ago. So we asked 16 leading thinkers to cast their vision forward and tell us what lies ahead 35 years hence. What ideas, values, or institutions that we take for granted may no longer be with us in 2040? What are the "endangered species" in our midst?

* The Sanctity of Life
By Peter Singer

* Political Parties
By Fernando Henrique Cardoso

* The Euro
By Christopher Hitchens

* Japanese Passivity
By Shintaro Ishihara

* Monogamy
By Jacques Attali

* Religious Hierarchy
By Harvey Cox

* The Chinese Communist Party
By Minxin Pei

* Auto Emissions
By John Browne

* The Public Domain
By Lawrence Lessig

* Doctors' Offices
By Craig Mundie

* The King of England
By Felipe Fernández-Armesto

* The War on Drugs
By Peter Schwartz

* Laissez-Faire Procreation
By Lee Kuan Yew

* Polio
By Julie L. Gerberding

* Sovereignty
By Richard N. Haass

* Anonymity
By Esther Dyson

The Utopian Nightmare
This year, economists, politicians, and rock stars have pleaded for debt relief and aid for the world's poorest countries. It certainly sounds like the right thing to do. But utopian plans for alleviating poverty give false hope to the millions who could use medicine and clean water instead.
By William Easterly

Ranking the Rich
The third annual CGD/FP Commitment to Development Index ranks 21 rich nations on how they help or hinder the poor. The rich hand out foreign aid, but they also put up barriers to trade. They send soldiers to keep the peace, but then sell arms to Third World thugs. Are the rich doing more harm than good?

In Green Company
President Bush says the Kyoto Protocol would cost the United States too much. Too bad corporate America is already playing by its rules.
By Stuart Eizenstat and Rubén Kraiem

The Protection Racket
Development activists finally realize that free trade is not evil. When do they plan to tell the poor?
By Arvind Panagariya

Reviews
In Other Words

o Nepal's terror alert By Kunda Dixit
o Putin can't lose By Christian Caryl
o Plus, what they're reading in Madrid

Net Effect
o Spam's toll on the poor
o When good iPods go bad
o Iraq (almost) gets a home on the Web
o The U.S. Army closes ranks
o Plus, the world's most-read blogger reveals his favorite sites

Missing Links
Dangerously Unique
Why our definition of normalcy is costly for everyone else.
By Moisés Naím

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