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...that investment banks crave. In 2006, for example, 91 foreign companies chose to sell new shares on London's stock exchanges - more than four times the number of overseas listings in New York, according to consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers. London's smaller domestic business means that "if you're going to flourish, you have to look around," says Richard Lambert, director general of British business lobby group the cbi. Likewise, London is building on an already leading stake in international bank lending and over-the-counter derivatives, and foreign equity trading. Attention-getting statistics like that helped motivate nasdaq to launch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Capital of Capital | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

...just deserts or to meld into a global mind. For each of us, consciousness is life itself, the reason Woody Allen said, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying." And the conviction that other people can suffer and flourish as each of us does is the essence of empathy and the foundation of morality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: The Mystery of Consciousness | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...culture. So the principals of Guru had come 7,800 miles to the Empire 25 theater just off Times Square in New York City to flack their film this weekend. (They'd been in Toronto the evening before.) Then Abhishek and Ash flew back to India, where, in a flourish that Brad and Angelina might take tips from, they announced their engagement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bollywood's New Guru | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

...survived both the Nazi death camps and the Soviet dictatorship in Hungary. Is your life an example of how the human will can flourish even in harsh conditions? Human will always flourishes. But I do not consider my life an example of this. I am a commentator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions For Imre Kertész | 1/9/2007 | See Source »

...learn their secrets, so that we, too, may flourish in toxic pools? The Times story doesn't go there, but it does say that the discovery of the?se doughty minutiae "could bear on estimates of the pervasiveness of exotic microbial life, which some experts suspect forms a hidden biosphere extending down miles [beneath the earth] whose total mass may exceed that of all surface life." Oh, and another study reported this week that the air we breathe is full of a far greater diversity of bacteria than we have known, including bacteria causing botulism and typhus, "lifted into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Friend the Microbe | 12/29/2006 | See Source »

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