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...uprising that came so close to overthrowing decades of army rule. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer once remarked sagely that progress in Burma is like glue flowing up a hill. Yet it's important to understand that beneath the long-running political stalemate in Rangoon, Burma is actually changing fast; not necessarily in the right direction, but changing all the same. The problem is not that the situation will stand still: the problem is that things might get worse - much worse...
...company that airlines favored efficiency over speed--the exact opposite of what Boeing was thinking. Two months later, Boeing ditched plans for a high-speed, high-cost jetliner to embark on a new program, the 7E7--E for efficiency--that has since changed global aviation and airframe manufacturing. Fast-forward five years to the prize: the 787 Dreamliner--a midrange cruiser that has already logged 47 clients for 684 jet orders, worth $114 billion in sales...
...wine. As CEO of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Peter buys wine for 12.7 million Canadians, since all the wine in that province has to be sold in government-run stores. So when he merely suggested in 2005 that wine companies find more environmentally friendly packaging, innovations happened fast...
...falling demand, rising steel prices and the fact that almost 700 acres of Western sod are sectioned off, subdivided, annexed or paved over daily, according to the Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust. Strip malls, 35-acre "ranchettes," town houses, resorts, mini-mansions, water parks, you name it, are fast becoming the face of the West, much more so than rodeos, "Howdy, ma'am" manners and, well, barbed wire...
Wildlife and rural life are already on the retreat, though, in places like Minturn, tucked under sharp cliffs at an ear-popping altitude of 7,800 ft. Developers, second-home builders and fast-money types view the old ranching-and-mining community of 1,200 as the next Vail or Jackson Hole with a more down-home bent. Main Street is torn between past and future: tin-roofed bungalows abut spanking new commercial buildings, and Volvos and BMWs with out-of-state plates honk at stray dogs...