Getting ready for the millennium round trade negotiations
Contents: 1. Overview / Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla and Sherman Robinson 2. Latin American perspective / Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla and Lucio Reca 3. Asian perspective / Marcus Noland 4. African perspective / Natasha Mukherjee and Rebecca Lee Harris 5. Transition Economies' perspective / Ulrike Grote and Peter Wehrheim 6. European Union perspective / Stefan Tangermann 7. United States of America perspective / Dale Hathaway 8. Least-developed Countries' perspective / Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Marcelle Thomas, and Valeria Pineiro 9. Cairns Group perspective / Kym Anderson.
ASIAN FOOD SECURITY AND THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF MODERN AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
It is an honor and a pleasure to be the inaugural speaker in the Hansen Memorial Lecture Series in Development and Environment. This series focuses upon one of the most critical issues of the 21st century: achieving human well-being while protecting the natural systems upon which our survival depends. The series is a fitting tribute to the memory of Dr. Gunner Kjer Hansen, whose dedication to environmentally sustainable development is well-known within and outside AIT.
Shoeless Joe: Fantasy and the Humor of Fellow-Feeling
In his essay on Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Thomas Carlyle writes of a humor that manifests itself in smile rather than laughter. "Richter is a man of mirth," says Carlyle, whose humor is "capricious . . . quaint . . . [and] heartfelt" (15). The three adjectives represent for Carlyle the essence of what he terms "true humor" because they suggest Richter's enormous respect for humanity. "True humor," he goes on to say, "springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper" (17). These smiles are not Hobbesian smirks of superiority1 but genuine signs of compassion for, sympathy toward, and empathy with the object of the humor. Carlyle further provides a direct link between humor and both pathos and nobility; the link is the smile of the caring man. For Carlyle, this smile is one of "fellow-feeling":