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...done whatever it needed to do to keep the economy on track. It has underwritten the build-up of the manufacturing sector, the telecom and electric infrastructure, and a large and complex financial system. It has also sold parts of the nation's largest companies to the public to give the companies more access to capital. The communist central government says it will put about $585 billion into the domestic economy in order to stimulate consumption and business expansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When China and Brazil Become a Better Investment Than the U.S. | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...research behind the ribosome, funded by the National Institute of Health, could give scientists “unprecedented power to evolve ribosomes to produce unique proteins for compelling applications,” Jewett said. Crucial vaccines and pharmaceuticals could evolve from the discovery...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists Create First Synthetic Ribosome | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...want to talk to the kid stars of Slumdog Millionaire. Their lives are making the gossip columns and headlines in their native India - and overseas. Azhar was reportedly slapped by his father when the boy, begging fatigue from traveling back from the Academy Awards in Hollywood, refused to give an interview his father had apparently promised. (Both were penitent afterward: Azhar said he had been "naughty," according to the Times of India, and reiterated that his father loved him; his father said, "I feel sorry now.") Meanwhile, Rubiana is supposedly in the middle of a custody tug-of-war between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Happen to Slumdog's Child Stars? | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

That did not turn out to be a good idea. Says Sissel, referring to Barnad by his current name: "If you give young kids in the slums money, then they do not see it. The mother took whatever I sent to Bernard. Toys were sold. Books were sold. Cash was taken. They lived in such desperation that she did what she had to do to survive. His mother's boyfriend was burning him with cigarettes. A rat bit him in his sleep, and he became infected. Horror stories that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Happen to Slumdog's Child Stars? | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...What makes Hassanzade's success so amazing, however, is how it grew from virtually nothing. The son of Afghan shepherds who fled to Pakistan in 2005, Hassanzade was 14 when his parents, determined to give their son a better, more peaceful life, paid smugglers to bring him to France in 2006. Once there, he was abandoned on the streets of Lille by the same people who were supposed to help get him settled in Europe. Despite having little money and knowing no French, the new arrival managed to communicate his dilemma with passersby, and eventually wound up in a children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Boxer Wins French Citizenship | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

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