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...convenience stores and well-designed boutiques. Glen Fukushima, a former head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, laments how, in international forums, Japanese tend to know a lot but are often unwilling to actually express themselves. Nevertheless, a sizable contingent of Japanese, who grew up in the era of globalization, see it as their homeland's responsibility to engage with - and help - the rest of the world. Peace Winds founder Onishi is just one of a growing group of Japanese who have founded their own international NGOs. Instead of being automatically vacuumed up by domestic firms, many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Reaches Out | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...Kerzner earned his rep as a world-class risk taker by building Sun City, a Las Vegas-style gambling and entertainment complex in a black "homeland" at the height of the apartheid era in South Africa. Critics argued that he was profiting from a much-criticized feature of the apartheid regime; Kerzner countered that Sun City was a place where blacks and whites broke racial barriers by partying together. Kerzner later became friends with Nelson Mandela, attending the South African hero's 90th birthday party in London in June. By the time apartheid fell, Kerzner was selling off his properties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Ambition in Dubai | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...need look no further than the catastrophe of 1960’s-era urban renewal projects to recognize the pitfalls of talking about cities in purely urban contexts. During that period, a number of smart people came up with a number of intelligent plans for scouring out city cores based on the best information available about the housing, business, and social needs of cities, as in Ed Logue’s plans for downtown New Haven. Despite the best intentions of these planners, though, the urban renewal era is widely considered a failure, and it did very little to stop...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Greater Metropolitanism | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...Internet.Depending on how wide the net is cast for potential Administration employees, the number of books or other print publications should remain relatively manageable for those lucky enough to be tasked with collating these applications. But sifting through all "readily available" blogs and Internet posts in an era when every self-respecting teenager averages a dozen weekly Facebook updates is a challenge of Herculean proportions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obama Application | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...Beijing, too, seems well aware of the Dalai Lama's age. In a recent press conference, a senior official was quoted by official media as speaking of a "post Dalai Lama era," calling on the leader to "correct his mistakes and get closer to the central government and do something beneficial for the people...during the remainder of his life, no matter if his health condition is good or poor." That would be consistent with the simple policy many analysts believe the Chinese have settled on: waiting until the Dalai Lama dies and refusing to concede anything in the meantime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Watches as Tibetan Talks Begin | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

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