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...over the past couple of years have monopolized businesses that by law should be reserved for P.N.G. nationals. In May, anti-Chinese riots convulsed cities nationwide, and several people were killed amid the looting of Chinese-owned shops. "Our timber, our minerals, everything, goes to China," says Damien Ase, founder of the nonprofit Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights in Port Moresby. "But we get so little in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of China Inc. | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...sounds like a bad joke, or perhaps the world's biggest public-relations challenge. The Russian firm AtomStroyExport (ASE) is trying to sell nuclear reactors to Finland - one of the countries worst affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. It's a tough job. On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear-power station's No. 4 reactor experienced a massive fire and meltdown, releasing radioactive dust that wafted over Finland. The resulting contamination forced Finnish authorities to slaughter almost a half a million farm animals and restrict fishing in rivers and lakes in central and northern Finland until 1988. Those memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aw, Forget Chernobyl! | 9/7/2003 | See Source »

Gathered around the floodlit enclosure at midnight, they sing that he will make peace: ya'ase shalom. The words refer to God, but as 300 worshippers thump tambourines and clap their hands in the warm night, they have someone else in mind. It is the rabbi. He shuffles through the crowd, small and bowed. They touch him for his blessing. He is a tzaddik, a holy man, a saint. "I will clean the people," he mutters. His arm winging like a metronome, Rabbi Yaakov Ifargan slings candles into a brazier until the flame rises 20 ft. and wax sizzles onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miracle Campaign | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...University has been reluctant to giveup the basic resources needed to expand networkservices. In fact the process of promoting andmaintaining Harvard's link to the Internet hasbeen a victim of such gross underfunding thatserious problems remain with services as basic ase-mail...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: 'NET GAINS | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

That is most unlikely. The national commitment to protecting all manner of minority rights through the 14th Amendment appears fixed. Says the Urban League's Vernon Jordan: "Black people )ase their hopes and aspirations on the 14th Amendment." But many Americans have become restive about the growing power of courts and lawyers, and the Burger Court has begun extricating the Federal judiciary from some emotion-reighted disputes. With adroit timing, Raoul Berger has once again stated, or overstated, a provocative point of view in matter of compelling concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Fie on the 14th | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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