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...Among your 10 ideas why was there nothing about the planet's burgeoning population? I smiled two pages later at the advert depicting a family with four children. Could this signal why we're in the pickle we are, financially and environmentally? Clarissa Hughes, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Ways to Change the World | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...stock. His argument is that the unrealized losses on the financial unit's balance sheet are greater than most investors understand. On top of the analyst's report, The Wall Street Journal reported that GE has significant exposure to the failing commercial real estate market. (Watch a GE advert shown during the Super Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of General Electric | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...supporters. The Christian Party, a right-wing political party whose policies focus mostly on moral issues, is joining the advert battle by displaying posters on at least 50 buses, though it is not working directly with Larlham's group. "There definitely is a God," its message reads. "So join the Christian Party and enjoy your life." Alexander Korobko, director of a Russian satellite-TV channel, says he is teaming up with the Russian Orthodox Church to place the message "There is God. Don't worry. Enjoy your life!" on at least 25 buses from March. "We're living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christians and Atheists Battle in London Bus Wars | 2/8/2009 | See Source »

...Writer Guadalupe Loeza says the advert went down well in Mexico because many people here still begrudge the loss of half of their territory to their northern neighbor. The 1848 war fills up big chunks of school history textbooks, and Mexicans have made national heroes of teenage soldiers who reportedly jumped to their deaths rather than surrender to the U.S. army as it swept into Mexico City. The ensuing Treaty of Guadalupe ceded some 525,000 square miles of Mexican territory to the U.S. for $15 million, and also included Mexico's first formal recognition of the loss of Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vodka Tonic for Mexico's Loss? | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...wound that has still not quite healed," says Loeza. "For Mexicans seeing this advert, it is like remembering that big house they once lived in instead of the small apartment they now have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vodka Tonic for Mexico's Loss? | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

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