Word: exportability
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...Martina Gedeck), chef of a ritzy Hamburg restaurant. Precise, sure, but her loveless life still needs a bit of leavening. That comes in two packages: her balky 8-year-old niece (Maxime Foerste) and a lavishly charming Italian sous-chef (Sergio Castellitto). The setup and payoff of this German export couldn't be more conventional, but Nettelbeck is a sharp observer of life's surprises, and Gedeck has an appraising, intelligent beauty. Her Martha is like the film: tart on the outside, sweet on the inside, with a delectable aftertaste. --By Richard Corliss
...electricity come from domestic alternative and renewable sources, including wind and solar power, by the year 2020? Isn't that a vision worthy of America? Developing new energy technologies can create thousands of good new jobs. Renewable energy can be generated, transported and consumed in America. And we can export our technology. I don't think we should take a backseat to the Germans or the Japanese in creating clean energies no American soldier will ever have risk life and limb to protect...
...Administration's overdue attention to the region--the U.S.'s No. 1 export market--comes as the U.S. economic model that most Latin American nations adopted at Washington's behest a decade ago has been failing. Despite rosy promises that open markets and budget austerity would improve living standards for all, more of the region's 500 million people are stuck in poverty, and its economies look more like Global Crossing than the global players they aspired to be. The sense that Washington was losing influence in Latin America deepened last week when Marxist guerrillas fired mortar shells in Bogota...
...pervasive problems. "It's impossible to fence off the two-thirds of the country that has diamonds," he says, while insisting that efforts to stem the gems' flow have been effective. The precious minerals, says Kabbah, are not the only thing of value that Sierra Leone can offer for export. Like some 70% of Sierra Leoneans, he is a Muslim. But unlike nearby Nigeria, riven by sectarian violence, "in Sierra Leone there is no religious bigotry," Kabbah says. "This is one of the things of which we're very proud." Given the country's interfaith harmony, mineral riches, abundant natural...
...North Korea is indeed serious about reform, it will begin by rebuilding its decimated manufacturing sector. The country needs to export goods if it is to earn hard currency to pay for the food and fertilizer it cannot produce itself. Cutting off subsidies to deadbeat factories is just a first step, and there is no evidence the government has a blueprint for moving further. "They aren't scrapping the socialist system," says Koh Hyun Wook, an expert on North Korea at Kyungnam University near Pusan. "These are makeshift moves to overcome the current economic crisis...