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Despite the enormous wealth of the Gulf States, the Arab world has experienced little or no industrial revolution. At its core it remains backward-looking and feudal in structure, with the oil paying for an army of foreigners to keep the economic wheels turning
Albania became the ultimate closed state, with no official contact with either the United States or the Soviet Union, and virtually no cultural or economic contact with the rest of Europe.
Eastern Europe!
Tomek E. Jankowski
The Harvard Dregs are Little Fish in a Very Big and Scary Pond. The Hartwick All-Stars are Big Fish in a Very Welcoming Small Pond. What matters, in determining the likelihood of getting a science degree, is not just how smart you are. It’s how smart you feel relative to the other people in your classroom.
David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell
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