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...just received the issue with "10 Ideas for The Next 10 Years." How about someone figuring out the process to reverse the process where we make petroleum into plastic, to make all this throwaway plastic back into petroleum? I have been to the slums of Mumbai where they recycle plastic as plastic. Wouldn't be better to turn it back into petroleum? Stephen M. Mattox, PUERTO VALLARTA, MEXICO...
...markets for immediate cuts. Did that force you to abandon efforts on some of the bigger structural changes? What the markets were saying is we've heard this, we don't believe you. Greece has lost its credibility. What I was saying all along is we have to bring back our credibility. That did in fact work. Credibility for Greece has come back. Of course, those are short-term changes. We have to get down to the deeper changes, which we're already doing. So that's this phase. Now getting beyond this immediate crisis - getting a breathing space...
...effort to convince Europe that Athens is serious about cleaning up its finances. "What the markets were saying is that, 'We've heard this, we don't believe you,'" Papandreou told TIME. "Greece had lost credibility. What I was saying all along is we have to bring back our credibility." Importantly, he's also managed to keep his party largely in line. "There is this concept of politics as a dirty game," he says. "It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty." Greeks, Papandreou argues, want to deal with the rot eroding their society...
...dowry, Bajaj has said. Tejinder Singh, a retired brigadier in the Indian army, remembers his first Bajaj scooter that he bought with a loan of $70 in 1973. In those days of bicycles, a scooter felt like a royal luxury. "Riding in the night, with my wife at the back, her hands gently holding me was the most romantic feeling," he says...
...darkness fell on Bangkok, it was not clear if the army would continue its operations throughout the night or wait until morning to resume trying to take back the city's streets. "All that happened today so far may come to nothing, depending on whether government can hold on to the slim advantage they earned today," said Tulsathit Thaptim, an editor at The Nation...