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...help but remain optimistic. After decades of rapid growth, it seems impossible to some that new jobs and rising incomes will somehow suddenly vanish. Gao Yajun, a 26-year-old Beijing photographer, sees opportunity in crisis. "My hunch is that it might turn out to be a golden opportunity to make money," he says. That spirit may be Asia's best protection against America's problems...
...combination research institute, natural-history museum, planetarium and aquarium, Piano is back in stride. What he has produced is a fascinating hybrid of classicism and a romantic view of nature that stretches back to the 18th century. The original museum, a complex of 11 buildings constructed over decades in Golden Gate Park, was badly damaged by the earthquake that hit the Bay Area in 1989. While keeping some of the original Beaux Arts structure, Piano has wrapped it in a finely detailed package of glass and steel...
...knew this was bad news," says Song Seng Wun, regional economist at CIMB-GK Research in Singapore, who like other market-watchers believes some sort of bailout plan will get through. Unlike U.S. taxpayers, market actors in Asia aren't overly concerned about details like limiting golden parachutes extended to disgraced CEOs of bankrupt financial companies, or whether the U.S. government gets enough equity for their investment. "They just want something to be passed," notes Kowalcyzk...
...opportunity for a do-over, rising nearly 5% on the notion that all those folks who were sending angry messages to their Representatives might have a doubt or two after checking their mutual funds balances. Broun is resolute that taxpayer money won't be used "to give a golden parachute to Wall Street that our grandchildren may still be paying for many decades from now." But Wall Street is all of us, including the Congressman from the 10th District in Georgia. We are all going to eat the cow patty. The only question is, how big will...
...revolutionized American - in fact, global - journalism. If Britton Hadden and Henry Luce, who founded TIME, were the fathers of the newsmagazine, Oz was the person who showed that the format could be a place for great, campaigning journalism, giving it a new relevance as America's post-1945 golden age gave way to the social and political tumult of the 1960s. In 1963, with a special issue titled "The Negro in America" - one of the handful of truly revolutionary pieces of American journalism - Oz made Newsweek a force to be reckoned with and demonstrated that great journalism could help shape...