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Ohio: When Next Door Is A World Away

Posted 07 May 2013

The story is told of a man who stood, day after day, by the doors of a bank of elevators in a New York skyscraper. Asked why he loitered there for hours on end, he replied simply: 'I wait for people to brush past me - I just need to be touched.'

The story may well be apocryphal but its central theme, urban isolation, will resonate with many Americans as they consider the dramatic tale of three young women... Click for more

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Living Out on a Limb

22 May 2013

According to the Bible, God takes no great pleasure in watching his people just 'getting by' in life. He doesn't much enjoy seeing his servants living a maintenance kind of life, with a keep-the-status-quo approach to the opportunities and challenges they face. In Jesus' story of the talents, one of the servants was afraid, so he hid what the master had invested in him. In end,... Click for more

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Creating An Innovation Hub

Turning a City into a Magnet for Inventive Minds

'Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower,' said Steve Jobs. What is true of individuals may also be true of cities.

The leading cities of the world are, to one degree or another, innovation hubs. They draw inventive minds and entrepreneurial thinkers like a magnet.

In some cases, such cities are not their nation's capital. Some are regional centres, yet they punch way above their weight because they ... Click for more

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