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...nuclear bombs, is being shut down. But Kim has refused to detail, as he had promised to do, other components of his nuclear program, including an alleged uranium-enrichment effort. And it has become clearer that he has continued to sell North Korean nuclear expertise into a buyer's market of rogue states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Damascus | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...place last May, the market plunged by 10.3% in the space of a week. And for many investors, that was a rude introduction to the basic lesson that what goes up can also come down. Li Xiuzhen, 58, a retired factory worker from Beijing and newbie stock buyer, says her investment fund has shrunk by 40%. Li, who receives monthly pension of $171, has lost $8,571 in recent months. "China's stock market is the biggest gamble," she says. And lately, it's been a losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing Moves to Revive Stock Markets | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...fissile material for the North's estimated 8 to 10 nuclear bombs-is slowly being shut down. But Kim has refused to detail all the other components of his nuclear program, including an alleged uranium enrichment effort, and he has continued to sell North Korean nuclear expertise into a buyer's market of rogue states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea's Syrian Connection | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...underground” comics are also a big selling point. In one corner of the store, you can find books of abstract comic art, critically-acclaimed fictional graphic novels, and works of autobiography.The idea of going the extra mile to give information to an interested but uninformed buyer is key to Picnic’s business. “With underground comics, we took a different tack,” Davis says. Take the cult hit series “Eightball,” by Daniel Clowes. “The idea...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KA-POW! | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

Date My House--and HGTV's Sleep On It, which has essentially the same premise--points up the shift in power between buyers and sellers. During the housing boom, it was the buyers who were afraid they might have to date (i.e., rent) forever. Your house was a coy Victorian maiden with eager suitors queuing up in the parlor. Now it's Lily Bart in The House of Mirth, facing squalor and destitution should it fail to find a suitable match. It's a contestant on The Bachelor, competing with a crowd of others and pining for a private date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV Home Shows Learn to Love the Bust | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

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