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I had these grandeur thoughts that I would read half of The World is Flat while I was in Mexico during Christmas holidays, but it just didn't happen. I did manage to get some reading done both to and from on the plane. This first post is going to highlight some of the things that grabbed my attention in the first bit of the novel.

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