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Scrap Metal and Bridal Gowns You could throw a dart at a chart of S&P 500 companies and come up with a China story. Intel is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build a gleaming new factory in the northern Chinese city of Dalian. Nike signed up Chinese basketball wunderkind Yao Ming and then a gaggle of élite Chinese athletes to become the most popular sports brand in the country, growing 22% this year in China compared with barely 2% in the U.S. FedEx invested billions in logistics in China and the Pacific Rim, not just enabling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can an Eagle Hug a Panda? | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...left-handedā€ umbrellas or ā€œgluten-freeā€ umbrellas. They are the everyman of protection from the elements. Consider the case of a lost pencil. You are rummaging in your bag to surreptitiously text someone, but then your eyes dart to an abandoned light-green pencil right under your seat. Of course you take it. Who is going to frantically come running into the classroom bawling over a lost pencil? Umbrellas and pencils both belong to that anonymously ubiquitous class of items; umbrellas simply cost $20 instead of 20 cents...

Author: By Anna E. Boch | Title: Under Your Umbrella | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

From the ubiquitous T-shirts sporting a red-eyed tree frog clinging to an Imperial beer bottle, to the best-selling postcards featuring the flamboyant poison-dart frog holding court in the rainforest, Costa Ricans today identify with frogs the way Russians relate to bears. That's because Costa Rica over the past generation has built a reputation as one of the world's greenest countries. It so jealously guards its environment that 26% of its territory is under national park protection, its eco-tourism sector is a $2 billion-a-year cash cow and its forest cover has actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Costa Rica's President: It's Not Easy Staying Green | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

...respond well,ā€ junior co-captain Gina Wideroff said. ā€œI think we did a pretty good job of responding and not shutting down.ā€ After Mann was forced to make two clutch saves on a free kick and a dart from close range by Ebert, Harvard cut the deficit in half on sophomore Hana Taijiā€™s goal late in the first half. Her first score of her career came in the 43rd minute on a ball deftly flipped over the Husky goalieā€™s head. Freshman Aisha Price was credited...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Outshot Crimson Falls to Huskies, 3-1 | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...owner, identified in court documents as Perpetua Inc., may stimulate some serious discussion about regulation. But that does nothing to quell the concerns of people who still don't know the whereabouts of their relatives' remains. "There's a strong element of trust you have with cemetery owners," Dart says. "But this case is beyond belief. I've never had anything like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outside Chicago, a Grim Tale of Unearthed Graves | 7/11/2009 | See Source »

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