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...sputter. The most vulnerable are those with high dependence on exports, such as Taiwan, South Korea and Vietnam. In China, weak export orders combined with rising costs are forcing tens of thousands of small factories to close in the country's industrial zones. The woes of exporters are felt throughout the region, which is tightly linked by trade in manufacturing parts and machinery. Slower sales to the U.S. mean reduced orders up and down the supply chain. "There are people who say you can still export to the emerging economies, especially in Asia," says Jun Saito, director general...
Reverberations from the implosion of the U.S. debt bubble can be felt a long way from Wall Street. Gaurav Rege was a hotel manager near Rishikesh, an Indian hill station at the foot of the Himalayas. He and his new wife are young, educated, well-off - and worried. A member of India's growing consumer culture, Rege, 30, took out an adjustable-rate loan two years ago to buy an investment property near Bangalore, but his monthly payments have jumped because of tighter credit and rising interest rates. He has abandoned plans to get an M.B.A. because student loans...
...Fingleton felt that Bradman used his influence to have the opener miss a tour of England, and other episodes, much debated, cemented his belief that Bradman was inclined to betray team-mates and cover his tracks. Were these grievances playing on Fingleton when he wrote The Immortal Victor Trumper, a biography of his cricketing hero? He could wait no longer than its second paragraph to proclaim: "To me, Trumper remains the greatest batsman who ever lived. Bradman could be rightly advanced against him, but whereas Bradman ... operated upon bowlers like a butcher at the abattoirs ... Trumper was like a surgeon...
...Fogarty, e-therapy was "a very non-threatening way" to get help. As she went through the 10 weeks of lessons on techniques for tackling her fears and activities to practice what she'd learned, "I felt more confident," she says, "like there was something I could do to manage the way I was feeling." She was guided by a psychologist who emailed her once a week (e-therapy may also include text messaging and access to private online forums). "Even though I never met her," Fogarty says, "I found her very understanding, perfectly accepting of how I felt." Though...
...Near the end of the program, Fogarty was asked to write about the fires, a task that brought both relief and anxiety. "I thought, it's so nice to begin to be honest about this," she says. But as she started reliving the trauma, "I felt I needed someone alongside me to help me do it." At her online guide's suggestion, she now sees a counselor once a month; the cost is covered by Medicare. "E-therapy was a really positive first step," she says. "It brought me to where I needed...