The Global Index of Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment, which ranks nations based on a combination of international test scores, literacy and graduation rates, put Finland and South Korea alone in the top category.
Sarkozy called for a fresh set of negotiations, with wider involvement of European and Arab nations, based on a timetable that would see the borders of a Palestinian state agreed within six months and a final deal within a year.
2000 years later, many of my fellow Christians uncritically approve the ways of this nation state based on a particular biblical formula: for Jesus to return the Jews need to be living in the homeland secured by Joshua and the kings inducted following Saul.
And it's only going to get worse, because the Shinnecock Indian Nation, based on a reservation just minutes from the center of Southampton, intends to open a casino — or several — on Long Island.
But there is legislation pending in both the House and Senate — the Student Non-Discrimination Act — that would establish a comprehensive prohibition against discrimination and harassment in public schools throughout the nation based on a student's sexual orientation or gender identity.
The United States has rich and poor regions, but the 50 states are forced to run balanced budgets, and there is greater mobility within the nation, based on a shared language and culture.
This era sees emerging markets become technological marvels where the Philippines can be one of the first nations with 4G, Ecuador may be the first nation based on a digital currency, and Estonia is the first with Digital residency.
"Hot" books once provided the backbone of the movie industry going back to "Birth of a Nation" (based on a bestseller "The Clansman" by the Rev. Thomas Dixon) through the days of "Gone With the Wind".
Solomon and her colleagues examined two scenarios for fairly reducing emissions by the EU, U.S., and China: an equity approach, which divides the global quota of emissions among all nations based on population; and an inertia approach, which divides the quota based on the current shares of global emissions.
It is, at one level, a primer on global efforts to contain greenhouse gas emissions, and it concludes with Singer's well-reasoned call for granting nations, based on their projected population in 2050, a fixed entitlement to the amount of emissions they can produce.
On first listening, dividing Iraq into three separate nations based on ethnicity might seem to be a good idea.
