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Cell phones are another example. They're now a booming market in the developing world, but historically, companies vastly underestimated their potential. In 2000, when Vodafone bought a large stake in a Kenyan cell-phone company, it figured that the market in Kenya would max out at 400,000 users...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Capitalism More Creative | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

In late November, with U.S. forces sweeping across Afghanistan, Hamdan returned to his home in Kandahar for his young daughter and pregnant wife and drove them toward Pakistan. What happened next is a source of dispute between Hamdan and the government. According to his defense lawyers, Hamdan figured that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salim Hamdan: Enemy Number One | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

Once we sat down, I realized I had no idea who these people were. Luckily, like every liberal event I've ever been to, the breakfast began by having us go around the room and talk about ourselves. I used the time to play L.A. bingo, which I won when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Activism, Hollywood-Style | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

Gathered last week in four Atlanta auditoriums linked by closed-circuit television, 40,462 ''messengers'' to the annual Southern Baptist Convention clapped their hands and sang, ''Give me that old-time religion; it's good enough for me.'' That is just what they got moments later, when it was announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR THEM Fundamentalists consolidate power among Southern Baptists | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

In late November, with U.S. forces sweeping across Afghanistan, Hamdan returned to his home in Kandahar, one of the last Taliban strongholds, for his young daughter and pregnant wife, and drove them toward Pakistan. What happened next forms a central source of dispute between Hamdan and the government. According to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamdan: Guantánamo's Mystery Man | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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