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Indians know the news is bad when the Prime Minister takes to the airwaves to address the nation. That's what founding father Jawaharlal Nehru did before India's war with China in 1962, and just under a decade later Indira Gandhi confirmed on television that Pakistan had launched military strikes against Indian airfields. So when current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stared down a camera to deliver a message earlier this month, there was no doubting the gravity of the situation. India was losing a battle of sorts: due to soaring oil prices, Singh told viewers, New Delhi was forced...
...imminent decolonization, prompted the quest for a common visual identity. This took place not only at the very moment that Western consumers began exhibiting unprecedented curiosity about Chinese belief systems and culture, but also at a time when multinational brands needed a sinicized graphic language in order to address hundreds of millions of Chinese shoppers. A postmodern Chinese style subsequently entered the global marketplace, appropriating elements of brushstroke calligraphy, Buddhist iconography, imperial and folk art, Shanghai Art Deco imagery, China Coast painting and the political art of the Cultural Revolution, while applying Western typographical ideas to Chinese characters...
...Leith's focal point is the Shore: a café-studded quayside leading past a series of tranquil canals fed by the Firth of Forth. Overlooking this estuary is Leith's hippest address, the Malmaison Hotel, www.malmaison-edinburgh.com. It offers 100 individually designed rooms and a brasserie packed with Edinburgh's fashionable crowd...
...there is some hope, as this special issue of TIME shows. Investigators are learning how everything from family income to ethnicity to geography helps determine which kids become overweight and which don't. We explore how psychologists and nutritionists are developing protocols to help parents better address weight issues, and we even offer tips on how to get kids off the couch. (Sometimes I just take away my two boys' Nintendos, and that gets them moving--at least in protest...
...those kinds of things don't directly address today's pressing economic problems. So Obama has had to come up with three short-term fixes: a $50 billion fiscal-stimulus program, much of it devoted to extending unemployment insurance beyond the current 26-week limit and helping struggling state governments; an aggressive foreclosure-prevention effort, with $10 billion in funding; and a tax cut for Americans making less than $150,000 a year, to be financed with tax increases on those making more than $200,000 a year. These add up to what you could call the stock Democratic response...