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California employs a unique combination of representative and direct democracy. A 1933 provision requires a two-thirds majority in both houses to pass a budget, a rule shared only by Rhode Island and Arkansas. Tax increases must pass by the same percentage--a stipulation adopted by just 12 other states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: California's Budget Crisis | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

True, public health uses different tools than traditional medicine employs, but it operates with the same intensity as medicine, and with the simple objective of making people better. This summer, I have seen public health fill the cracks in a patient’s well being. T provides the extra...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Teamwork Healthcare | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

I got a look at Fujifilm's prototype 3-D camera last month at the company's Tokyo headquarters, and was pleasantly surprised that it was not much bigger or heavier than some conventional digicams. The most obvious difference is that Fuji's 10-megapixel shooter employs two lenses, spaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fujifilm's New Dimension | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

For Wang Baoguo, CEO of the Hangzhou Dafeng Furniture Co., securing two loans via Alibaba has meant gaining the cash to buy raw materials at lower cost. The seven-year-old company employs 150 people and manufactures wooden home furnishings. But despite its experience, Hangzhou Dafeng has traditionally avoided pursuing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In China's Lending Boom, Small Businesses Go Begging | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

The company also began signing partnerships with Liberia's tens of thousands of small rubber farmers. Under the deals, BRE builds roads and bridges to the plantations, removes old rubber trees and pays the farmers for them, smooths the land, replants it with new saplings grown at a BRE nursery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebuilding Liberia | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

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