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...dams may boost economic growth in developing countries facing severe energy crunches. Vietnam, for example, suffers from chronic electricity shortages, and compared with coal-fired and oil-burning plants, hydropower is a relatively clean and inexpensive solution. But dams also have severe, long-term environmental consequences. Vietnam's Mekong Delta, where the river finally meets the sea, is a vast web of waterways that serves as a giant rice bowl, providing the nation with half of its total agricultural output. Yet in part because of the increasing number of dams reducing the flow of the river, salt water from...
...Even as one way of life begins to fade, another springs into existence. For so long, the Mekong Delta, despite its riverine abundance, has been scarred by a grueling cycle of war and poverty. Today, the area is welcoming Chinese investors, who have flocked to newly constructed industrial zones where Vietnamese factory workers churn out motorcycles, shoes and televisions. This year, a $1 billion industrial park funded by some 40 Chinese businesses is set to open near the South China Sea, providing jobs for tens of thousands of Vietnamese. Like the rest of the country, the delta has a booming...
...with people or show off the substance of his antipoverty proposals, about which he knows plenty. (In 2005 he became founding director of a poverty think tank at UNC-Chapel Hill, and since then he has visited more than 100 antipoverty programs.) As his tour moved up the Mississippi Delta, he met people enduring dreadful conditions with remarkable fortitude, and he slowly came alive...
...under the Open Skies agreement drawn up by Washington and Brussels, from early next year any E.U. airline will finally have the right to fly to any city in the U.S., and vice versa. With U.S. rivals Delta and Continental expected to start operating flights out of Heathrow next year, "BA's business-class fare is going to be under considerable pressure," says JPMorgan's Avery...
...each year-but they don't. Sometimes it is easier to put things in perspective from the other side of the world. "It is not the best feeling in the world to know that I'm taking away someone's job," said Sheelan Chawathe, who answers the phone for Delta Air Lines in Mumbai. He offered some advice: "Stop trading in your car every year and a half, and cut down going to Applebee's seven days a week to once a week. If you cut back, you can keep a pretty high standard of living...