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...could find themselves unemployed-and angry at their government. Likewise, if offshoring stalls in India and the economy tumbles, voters will likely hoist their leaders out of office in the next elections. So both the Indian and the Chinese governments are trying to keep their economies growing and globalizing fast, while the U.S. and Europe are finding themselves alarmingly and inextricably linked to the job markets of the international economy's fast-growing Asian giants. For now, we have a global economic détente...
...Cheating isn't epidemic - the Education Ministry has disqualified only 392 students so far this year - but it is an outgrowth of a bigger problem: the severe shortage of university places. Vietnam's higher-education system hasn't expanded fast enough to meet the demand from students eager to get ahead in Asia's second fastest-growing economy (after China). Nguyen Thu Phuong, 18, studied for more than a year for the exams, and was poring over a few last-minute math equations on a bench shortly before testing began. Her mother, anxiously fanning the girl as she studied, once...
...construction workers, mainly from the Indian subcontinent - are adding a new story every three days. At that pace, the Burj Dubai will this week surpass Taipei 101, a 1,666-ft. (508-m) tower in Taiwan, to become the world's tallest building. When I remark how startlingly fast the Burj Dubai is rising, Sang replies simply: "Why go slow...
...TIME: You're a 23-year-old Silicon Valley CEO. How do you deal with all pressures that come along with running a hyper-fast paced, high-profile technology company...
...whose populations are becoming increasingly anti-American and anti-Israeli, thanks to the American invasion of Iraq and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. These governments are unlikely to make substantial gestures toward Israel without significant progress toward a Palestinian state, lest they incur the growing wrath of their fast-radicalizing subjects...