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True to form, last month's meeting of UNCTAD was another failure. The rhetoric of the new economic order made developing countries miss an opportunity to win the only prize worth having.
Too much innocent energy is being spent on the search for numerical coincidences with physical quantities. Would that this Pythagorean energy were spent more profitably.
