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Yet Toyota's truck plan illustrates not only the company's relentless drive but also the risks that accompany it. The Tundra is part of a massive increase in Toyota's global production that will have far-reaching repercussions for the firm's future and that of the entire U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Dude on the Road | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

The more vexing question was what can be done to reduce it. Virtually no one in the poll was for a tax increase. Some 56% called for cuts in Government spending, and 36% supported a combination of budget cuts and tax hikes. More than seven out of ten believe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Popular Than Ever | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

AIDS appears to be almost entirely a heterosexual disease in the central African countries of Zaïre, Rwanda and Burundi, where it affects women and men in equal numbers. According to a Canadian researcher working in East Africa, "Prostitution seems to have played a key role in African AIDS." Many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: A Growing Threat | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Ranting has many styles, many purposes. Sometimes its only ambition is to vilify. Robert Burns once let fly at a critic in these terms: "Thou eunuch of language; thou butcher . . . thou arch-heretic in pronunciation, thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis . . . thou pimp of gender . . . thou scape-gallows from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Oh, Shut Up! The Uses of Ranting | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

We soon settled upon a strategy: find a luxury apartment in one of the best downtown areas, hire a property firm like Colliers International or Jones Lang LaSalle to manage it, then lease it to expats. (Locals, I was told, hate to rent.) "Go for a prime location in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Betting on the Shanghai Boom | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

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