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...economy. And despite much progress in recent years, too many Europeans still aren't working. Businesses and the European Central Bank continue to prescribe flexibility - making it easier to fire and cheaper to hire. As France's embrace of the 35-hour workweek shows, however, Europeans aren't always eager to put growth first. Security, quality of life and, yes, political power matter, too. Here Time looks at two countries where labor is pushing back...
...central Asian states where the U.S. now has bases - in addition to three in Afghanistan, there are about a dozen U.S. military outposts (the Pentagon isn't eager to detail its presence in the region) polka-dotting Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - are pleased by Washington's interest. It shows they are truly independent of Russia, and the money's not bad, either (this base alone pumps an estimated nearly $1 million a week into the anemic local economy...
...world of planters and fur traders. So, when the deist Franklin was offered a chance to print the pamphlets of the great fire and brimstone preacher, Jonathan Edwards, he had no reservations about being the largest distributor of Great Awakening propaganda. In a later controversy, Franklin was eager to print colonial paper money not because it would facilitate economic growth, but because he knew that as a printer, he’d get some of the cut for printing out the cash...
...students, Faculty and administrators say the program has not addressed several structural shortcomings despite the booming enrollment numbers, possibly leaving out some eager students and lessening the experience of those who are accepted...
...experience leads more women than men to focus on the humanities—even while studying science—and more men to stick to strict scientific disciplines. What the students can describe is what it feels like to be the only girl in a room full of 20 eager-to-please male organic chemistry students. “I would inevitably be the only woman there,” says Yao Liu ’04, a chemistry concentrator who is the current president of WISHR. “That sort of discouraged me from going...