The Shrinking Globe

Hillary Rodham Clinton visited one of Europe’s oldest seats of learning Thursday to praise high-tech tools that help make the world a smaller place while warning that they haven’t eradicated hostilities between peoples. Speaking in Paris at the Sorbonne’s domed auditorium, the first lady described how Kosovo refugees now living in the French city of Lyon soon will be able to track missing relatives via the Internet. “These refugees will be able to find out whether family members are missing or dead,” she told an audience that included her daughter, Chelsea, France’s first lady, Bernadette Chirac, and the U.S. ambassador to France, Felix Rohaytn. “The real challenge is to try to understand globalization and harvest its benefits on behalf of society.”