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One of former Bogot谩 Mayor Antanas Mockus ; many inspired strategies for changing the mindset 鈥?and, eventually, the behavior 鈥?of the city unruly inhabitants was the installation of traffic mimes on street corners. Photo courtesy of El Tiempo Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge and found it: to be in charg
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e of, as he describes it, a 6.5 million person classroom. Mockus, who had no political experience, ran for mayor of Bogot谩; he was successful mainly because people in Colombi
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cial experiment just as the city was choked with violence, lawless traffic, corruption, and gangs of street children who mugged and stole. It was a city perceived by some to be on the verge of chaos.People were desperate for a change, for a moral leader of some sort. Ysfd Collaboration yields first citywide network of wireless sensors
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nnan, who arrived in Pakistan accompanied by his Special Representative for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, is scheduled to meet tomorrow with President Pervez Musharraf and Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar. Responding to a question during
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a press encounter at the Islamabad airport, the Secretary-General said that he had been personally in touch with both India and Pakistan, as well as others, about the need to de-escalate tensions. I have been very pleased with the statement made by President Musharraf eleven days ago, and I think these are very important statements, and I think this is a step in the right direction, and we need to build up on that, he said. And I hope that would also lead to defusing the tensions. Mr. Annan made a similar
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comment earlier in the day when on his way to Islamabad from Tokyo, he made a brief stopover in Bangkok.Asked about the possibility of an escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan, the Secretary-General stressed that the two countries cou