Only a few generations ago, for the great majority of us, the smoke rising from the chimneys of the neighboring village marked the limits of our world. Today, however, sitting at our computers, we are linked in a matter of moments to the rest of the globe. The rapid advances in science and technology, the increasingly free exchange of ideas among societies, and the dynamic growth in international trade have brought us closer together. We talk today, without poetic license, of living in a "global village."
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