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...based, incentivized school system under the eye of a "standards authority." A self-described policy wonk, Bissell is clearly more interested in the details of governance than in big ideas (the subject of several recent books by Indian CEOs). "Let's go into the trenches," he says, with the air of the classic patrician philanthropist, "and see what needs to be done." (See pictures of India's health care crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Social Fabric | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...While the Western swing comes early in the campaign cycle, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters aboard Air Force One that the timing shouldn't be a surprise. "They are very competitive states, as they were just two years ago. The political landscape not just in these two states but throughout the country continues to be dominated by concern about the economy, not surprisingly," Gibbs said. With the Administration devoting considerable energy to hailing the success of its economic stimulus package, it's clear that Obama's team considers the economy the fulcrum on which the midterms pivot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Obama Help or Hurt Dems on the Trail? | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...Gripen and the Eurofighter Typhoon from EADS, a six-nation European consortium. All of them sent teams of delegates to Defexpo. They hovered around their booths, giving impromptu presentations over free cappuccino to bureaucrats, army officers and local journalists. The bid is already in its final stages - Indian air force pilots are testing the planes in the field - so it is unlikely that the PowerPoint slides at Defexpo will sway the decision. Still, says Marco Bonelli, spokesman for the Eurofighter Typhoon, "you have to be here." (See pictures of India a year after the Mumbai attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Arms Industry, India Is a Hot Market | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...Eurofighter Typhoon flight simulator. He sat in a replica of the cockpit, watching a head-up display projected onto a screen in front of him as a simulated landscape - in this case, the west of England, near Manchester - passed underneath. Wing Commander Anthony (Foxy) Gregory of the Royal Air Force was there to answer technical questions, and will head to Bangalore to work with Indian test pilots. "We see the Indian air force becoming a strategic partner in the region," Gregory says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Arms Industry, India Is a Hot Market | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...Second, West Africa has become a key route for the trafficking of South American cocaine to Europe. Guinea-Bissau is now awash with the stuff, which is off-loaded along its coast and then transported by air, sea or land to Europe. The overland route across the Sahara is facilitated by Niger's Tuareg tribe, which has been staging a low-level rebellion in the northern part of the country since 2007. "In some cases, the value of the drugs being trafficked is greater than the country's national income," Antonio Maria Costa, director of the U.N. Office on Drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Coup in Niger Adds to West Africa's Instability | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

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