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What could be impending catastrophe for Begum means relief for Susheil Joshi. Behind him in his Hong Kong office, Joshi--one of those who will help decide the fate of Begum and many like her next year--has a color-coded map of the world, with 36 countries highlighted. These are places visited each year by Joshi, who buys the merchandise that the Children's Place, a North American chain of affordable-clothing stores, sells in America...
Still, it may be a collateral benefit that Reid enters the arena at this particular moment, with Democrats yet again pondering their fate. The Washington donkeys seem exhausted by the Kerry loss, lacking the energy for their usual intramural vilification. The left traditionally screams that the party lost because it didn't feed enough red meat to its base, but that argument doesn't work this time--the base turned out in droves. Instead, there seems to be a tacit understanding that far too many members of the Democrats' supposed natural constituency, the middle class, voted Republican because of national...
Still, few U.S. economists feel comfortable that the fate of the economy sits largely in the hands of its creditors, especially when all parties are playing an international blame game. Europeans want the U.S. to cut the deficit; the U.S. wants Europe to stop whining and stimulate its economy, which would generate domestic demand and offset business lost to the U.S. and China because the weak dollar has made European goods so much more expensive. Both European and U.S. officials want China to revalue its yuan. With a hot economy and trade surplus, the Chinese, many Westerners believe, can handle...
...turbines create includes shadows, flicker, flashing FAA lights, cell and TV interruption, stray voltage, water contamination—the list goes on. It truly does! And the Harvard purchase and others like it will ensure that rural communities all around the country continue to experience the same fate...
...bullets, Rowan begins to wonder why he's "risking [his] rear end running a bunch of trucks through some other country's civil war." He quits his job and reluctantly plans to leave China, until a chance meeting in a bar with TIME's China bureau chief changes his fate. Having secured an invitation to LIFE's New York headquarters, Rowan is hired as the magazine's sole correspondent covering the civil war. This new assignment soon proves almost as dangerous as his previous job. Together with photographer Jack Birns, Rowan flies around China with hotdog American pilots, using their...