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A former NATO official in Afghanistan compares the warlords to shrapnel lodged in an artery: Infection is a risk, he says, but pulling it out could be even worse. "There are so many other things we have to worry about, so why go and open this can of worms?" he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Warlords of Afghanistan | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Sami Khoreibi can't stop smiling. The baby-faced CEO of Enviromena Power Systems, Khoreibi launched his business a little over a year ago. Now he is looking over a 10-MW solar farm in the desert outside the city of Abu Dhabi, with row after row of solar panels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abu Dhabi: An Oil Giant Dreams Green | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Abu Dhabi is the last place you might expect to find the future of environmentalism. The wealthy capital of the United Arab Emirates is the world's eighth biggest producer of petroleum. But the leaders of Abu Dhabi know--perhaps better than most--that the oil won't last forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abu Dhabi: An Oil Giant Dreams Green | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

The State Council's directive came after several months of vigorous initiatives to keep people employed. Last month, Wang Dong, head of Beijing's Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, announced that all state-owned enterprises in the Chinese capital are forbidden from laying off any of their 750,000 employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Corps, Govs Scramble to Save Jobs | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

Former Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in as Prime Minister by President Robert Mugabe Wednesday and urged his countrymen to unite in an effort to revive the country. "For too long, Zimbabwe has endured violent political polarization," he told a rally of thousands in the Zimbabwean capital of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Zimbabwe's Unity Government Stand a Chance? | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

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