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Space Program!  Article By: Miss Trevize  Be proud of your
country, and keep those boosters firing!  Submitted:Mar 8, 2012
 Reads: 13    Comments: 2    Likes: 1     Countries around the
world are becoming richer. They are becoming smarter. More and
more nations are coming close to us in the sheer weight their
economic power can throw around on the international scene. This
of course, will be followed by social power, which will be
followed by military power. Why is the United States suddenly in
a world full of, well, rising superpowers? Surely, things did
not get this way over night, and surely, there is no one answer.
However, both of these are false, to some degree. Overnight, no,
not literally, but in the grand scheme of history? Yes! China
and India specifically have gone, as the old adage goes "from
rags to riches" in an astoundingly short amount of time. While
they still have a long way to go, just as mankind as a whole
does, for our natio