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...With that kind of word-of-mouth, Chinese cars could account for 10% of Russia's foreign-auto market in 10 years, says Bonchev. But profits may depend on whether Chinese manufacturers are able to own and operate factories independently on Russian soil. Currently, mainland automakers are forced to rely on joint-venture assembly plants and licensing agreements to sell cars to Russians. To protect its domestic car companies, Moscow may keep it that way. Though four Chinese automakers have applied to open their own Russian plants, none have been approved, according to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Road Test | 12/19/2007 | See Source »

...play. But Sun’s solo play is, above all, a tremendous and exhausting feat of acting. She throws herself into a bevvy of characters: The high-strung principal Mrs. Kennedy, concerned only with the school’s statewide Regents scores and the federal grants that depend on them; the abrasive security guard, who sends students home if they dare sport so much as a metal belt buckle; Sun’s landlord, who believes that sending all students to Catholic school would solve the problems of the American educational system; and Sun herself, the dedicated teacher...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘No Child’ Lacks Development | 12/16/2007 | See Source »

...next three weeks will be filled with electioneering and mudslinging. The poll's legitimacy will depend largely on whether the opposition parties, who pondered boycotting the election but now seem committed to taking part, see it as mostly fair or renounce it and call protest rallies. With a compromised Supreme Court and restricted media, though, many Pakistanis already believe that the poll will be little more than another fig leaf to disguise a deeply unpopular dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Real End to Pakistan's Emergency? | 12/15/2007 | See Source »

...valuable as tropical forests may be to the world as a carbon sink, however, they matter even more to the people whose lives and livelihoods depend on them. Some environmentalists fear that a rush to cash in on forest conservation could end up hurting the indigenous people - whether the rubber tappers of Brazil or the forest dwellers of Aceh - that it should benefit most. After all, history has not been good to native people in the developing world who dwell on suddenly valuable land. The key will be to manage avoided deforestation projects properly, to make sure they are truly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Life of Trees | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...faces the added challenge of improving her job prospects while knowing that accepting one of these careers could strip her family of the welfare provisions—foodstamps and childcare vouchers—that she and her daughter depend...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mixed Blessings for Student Mother | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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