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...pressures on Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao are overwhelming. They are white-knuckling their way through their final two years in office, focusing on 8% or higher growth and crushing any dissent that could derail it. The Chinese people are generally pretty happy, but the Party leadership is terrified of their outsized expectations. People under age 40, the progeny of the one-child policy, didn't live through Maoist poverty and upheaval. They are pampered, impatient and demanding. They consider exponential growth as a basic benchmark of life, and access to information to be a civil right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The China Fix | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...Year reminds me of the Nobel Peace Prize given to President Obama: both men are being congratulated in advance of any results [Dec. 28 - Jan 4]. Don't forget that Bernanke could be wrong, and then we might find the medication is worse than the illness. The final judgment will not come for a couple of years. Jean Claude Pivot Vourles, France

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...care reform demonstrators who rallied in front of his district office with signs saying "Health Care Can't Wait" and "Public Option NOW!" "There is giant passion on both sides of the health issue and real angst about the economy," says Mitchell. A moderate Democrat who voted for the final House bill, he believes the current health care status quo is unsustainable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: With the Tea Party Patriots of Scottsdale | 1/31/2010 | See Source »

...year later, Warner led the Cardinals - yes, those Cardinals - to the Super Bowl, where he would have won another title, and MVP, had the Pittsburgh Steelers not rallied late in the game. This season, Warner's final game wasn't pretty, a lopsided 45-14 loss to the New Orleans Saints two weeks ago. But his penultimate performance will be lauded at his Hall of Fame enshrinement. Warner, who is 38, completed 29 of 33 passes, for 379 yards, in Arizona's 51-45 win over the Green Bay Packers on Jan. 10. He finished the game with more touchdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kurt Warner Retires: The Greatest Showman on Turf | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

Have they ever. In truly pizza-crazed cities like New York, San Francisco and Chicago, fanatical artisans vie with one another to see who can be most slavishly faithful to the principles of Vera Pizza Napoletana, the final word in pizza purity. But even in less food-obsessed American cities, various brick-oven restaurants compete for the approval of a fickle, pizza-geek public that looks closely at everything from the sourcing of the fior de latte to the presence of "tip sag" issues with the crust. A recent post at Slice, the king of pizza blogs, states, "The crust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Domino's Mea Culpa and America's Pizza Passions | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

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