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...pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Germany lags far behind other Western countries when it comes to gender equality in the workplace and promoting women to top positions. In a survey of 600 global companies conducted by the World Economic Forum earlier this month, Germany ranked 14th out of 20 countries in terms of the percentage of women employed. The study found that only 33% of employees at the German companies surveyed are women, compared with 52% at the American companies in the poll and 48% at the Spanish firms. Moreover, only 6% of chief executives in Germany are women, compared with 12% in Norway...
...reason for their angst is clear enough: throughout 2009, the most severe global downturn in decades, China's economic growth remained intact. This year, China's GDP will likely rise 9% or more, in contrast to a merely subpar recovery in the U.S. and Europe. For thousands of companies across the globe, anything that threatens China's buoyancy threatens their own bottom lines. (Witness the sell-off in the S&P 500 on Feb. 12, when Beijing's central bank raised by a tick the so-called reserve ratio requirement for its banks.) And nothing, not even massive government infrastructure...
When names and an apology weren't given, the anger shifted to pandemonium. "Zionist!" a man yelled as the meeting broke up. A letter submitted to TIME by the council accused TIME, along with the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz and the American news website Global Post, of fomenting "irritation, division, unrest and instability in Sinai" and of "creating a gap between the people of Sinai and the government...
...makes possible an old desire that [we] have [our] own space for dialogue and political resolutions," says Salvador Beltrán del Río, Mexico's Foreign Relations Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean. Calderón has also announced that Mexico will host the next U.N. global climate-change conference, starting Nov. 30, also in Cancún. Says Shannon O'Neil, a fellow for Latin American studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City: "Mexico seems anxious to look outward again." (See pictures of Mexico's clown convention...