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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

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Contrary to the image of imports and exports being only “stuff” flowing in and out of places like the Port of Long Beach, the report notes that services accounted for 31%, or $525.8 The statistics in from the Brookings Institution’s excellent report – Export Nation – also speak to this trend. billion of total U.S. exports in 2008.

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Irene brings rain, flooding and end of news as we know it [#irene]

This is going to be BIG.

” The real news—the information I needed, cared about, and found relevant—as it turned out, was on the internet. The internet was pretty much the only way to find out whether you had to be evacuated. I kept thinking, “Where is the actual news?”

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