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The Exhausting Race for Ideas; Individuals have authored their own content since cave men and women were painting on walls. But once they could do it in digital form, the power of ideas would trump the might of armies in world affairs.

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Byline: Thomas L. Friedman (Friedman, the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, is author of "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.")

In the fall of 2005, I was going through my notes after a trip to Singapore when I realized something: I had spent virtually all my time talking to educators--from the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, to students and professors at the National University of Singapore, to the minister of Education, to a high-school principal, to an Indian couple who were providing Singaporean schools an online system for innovative ways to teach math to the country whose children already lead ...

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