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...Hickenlooper, a former geologist and microbrewery owner who was elected mayor of Denver in his first try for public office. "You don't have a complicated political superstructure out here. You don't have to wait your turn to run for office. Outside the Latino community, ethnicity doesn't count for much. Nobody cares who your grandparents were...
...count our blessings (we'll get to the bad news in a moment.) Economically, the world has not sparkled so brightly in years. Since 2003, the global economy has been expanding at a heartening clip - close to 5% per year, according to the International Monetary Fund, which foresees more good years to come, at least until 2010. Globalization is acting precisely as predicted - as an engine of growth that accelerates investment by leveling borders and speeds up consumption by driving down prices. These competitive pressures also bear down on costs, and so money remains cheap while (core) inflation is safely...
Until the big war, that is, World War I, which triggered 70 years of deglobalization - tariff walls, capital controls and autarky. Politics produces those exogenous factors economists always invoke to hedge their optimistic bets. Which is why we can't count on the decoupling effect forever...
...head. In the 1960s, when human beings were first venturing into outer space, TIME explored those efforts and traveled with astronauts, through launches from Sputnik to Apollo and far beyond. Humanity is on a similar quest now, inward rather than outward, and just as readers decades ago came to count on us for news from the cosmos, so can today's readers look to us for dispatches from the brain. We will be putting together a team of reporters, writers, and scientists--our own brain trust--to regularly explore this great inner horizon...
...sharpen skills like butchering a whole chicken. He began practicing for the Bocuse in January 2006. By November, he could skin, cut and fillet a bird in seven minutes. But he knows that isn't good enough, since every second of prep time will count. His goal is to do it in three minutes flat. With his eyes closed. "I know the anatomy of a chicken better than I know my own," he says. His wife Linda videotapes his 12-to-16-hour practice sessions, which gives her an excuse to spend time with her husband and enables...