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...Renata Brink, 47, casts a wary eye as her two sons, aged four and nine, plot their next moves at the crowded playground. Her explanation for the apparent baby boom is that the newborns and their happy parents are like magnets attracting other parents and even more hopeful couples to this corner of the city. "It seems everybody has kids, so you have a great network for families," she says...
...biggest threat, though, is a crash in the property or stock market. When U.S. property and media tycoon Sam Zell visited India in April, he told local real estate executives that they were "on the brink of excess" and that the boom could end in a bust. Real estate stocks plunged as much as 50% in a general market sell-off last spring, while property prices have fallen 20% or so in some areas in the past six months. Both the government and the Reserve Bank of India are trying to cool the real estate sector without crashing...
...dwindling fish stocks. Although the trade is supposed to be tightly regulated by quotas, the messy breakup of the Soviet Union led to a flourishing black market that has proved difficult to suppress. According to the World Wildlife Fund, many sturgeon species are now being pushed to the brink of extinction. Although the British government recently introduced tough new labeling requirements for all caviar sold in the U.K., so far caviar smuggling has passed with little sanction. EU countries imported 591 tonnes of caviar in 2006, but seizures of illegal caviar between 2000 and 2005 totaled just 12 tonnes...
...agreeing with my twenty-something Argentine peers by simply opposing the war in Iraq or Bush’s disregard for an Argentina on the brink of collapse in 2001 doesn’t redeem me in their eyes. Engaged in an Argentine-beer-fueled, late-night debate about the evils of the U.S.’s foreign policy, I explained that I had voted against Bush in 2004, and that I would be happier to see him go than most. The Argentines present weren’t placated. “He’s ruining your country...
...China. The son of a couple of postal workers from Shenzhen, he is part of what Yao has wrought. His trail from gawky teenager growing up in southern China - he was 6'3"? by the time he was 12, when he played in his first basketball game - to the brink of stardom quietly delights the powers behind the global sports marketing machine that the NBA has become, because they helped get "The Big Yi"? (pronounced "E", a la the nickname of hall of fame forward Elvin Hayes) where he is today...