A manifesto for the fast world / Thomas L. Friedman -- Too many flags? / Juan Enriquez -- At this rate, we'll be global in another hundred years / Nicholas D. Kristof -- The nanny chain / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- China's Big Mac attack / James L. Watson -- Customizing the world on the Web / Robin Peek -- We can fight, we can win / Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh with Thea Lee -- The protectionist myth / Bruce Stokes -- A new kind of war / R.C. Longworth -- Continental drift / Robert Wright -- There's something happening here / Jerry Useem -- The other world wide web / Wolfgang H. Reinicke -- The godfathers go global / John Lloyd -- The man from Interpol / Alice Dragoon -- With world opening up, languages are losers -- The world gets in touch with its inner American / G. Pascal Zachary -- A world together / Erla Zwingle -- Global culture -- AMA becomes an international force in medicine / D. Ted Lewers -- Seeds of chaos / Jeff Gersh -- Killing them softly / Jennifer Scarlott.