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...short-term fix. I talk about Ikea being the least sustainable company on the planet. That's a quote, I didn't say that. But the reason is that they rely on consumers to carry huge costs for the company. (Read "Wal-Mart vs. Target: No Contest in the Recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Cheap Stuff Really Costs Us | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

Lately, the pace of transformation has been picking up, and the World Cup is one of the reasons. In 2004, South Africa won the contest to host the 2010 soccer championships, ushering in a $10 billion national infrastructure upgrade. In Joburg, that includes an underground train linking the city to a new airport, roads, a rapid bus system and two rehabbed stadiums. Most of the improvements were already planned, but as Williamson says, the Cup meant "a five-year plan became a two-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joburg Gets It Together | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

TIME could have found someone more deserving of magazine space than Perez Hilton [June 8]. Hilton makes his living humiliating people for entertainment. On top of that, he intentionally used his position as a judge at a beauty contest to sabotage a contestant's shot at the crown because she had the nerve to have her own opinion and, even worse, share it. Dave Avanzino, FULLERTON, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...else's underpants--not quite comfortable. I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Janet Evanovich | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...Given a chance, though, North Koreans' native intelligence does flourish. Two years after first entering a team in the IBM-sponsored Computer Olympics (the International Collegiate Programming Contest), the North Koreans made it into the finals. "They are capable of handling very complicated software, and the results are extremely good," says Paul Tjia, a Dutchman whose GPI Consultancy has arranged for several European clients to outsource work to North Korean programmers. At Seoul's Unification Ministry, IT expert Lee Duk Haeng says Samsung and Korean Telecom are among a handful of South Korean firms currently using North Korean engineers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea Tries to Ramp Up Tech Infrastructure | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

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