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...food shortages and possible famine, a problem that could worsen if Kim is debilitated. "When it comes to allocation of resources, Kim is the one who decides," says Cheong Seong Chang, director of Inter-Korean Relations Studies at the Sejong Institute near Seoul. "Now, different players may try to grab a bigger piece of the limited resources." The ironic result: without Kim, "the food situation for the North Korean people will get worse, heightening the crisis from within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A World Without Kim | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...struggling with food shortages and possible famine, a problem that could worsen if Kim is debilitated. "When it comes to allocation of resources, Kim is the one who decides," says Cheong Seong-Chang, director of Inter-Korean Relations Studies at the Sejong Institute. "Now, different players may try to grab a bigger piece of the limited resources." The ironic result: Without Kim, "the food situation for the North Korean people will get worse, heightening the crisis from within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imagining North Korea After Kim | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

...giant grosses, the high-to-middle-brow drama - TIFF's specialty - has become if not an endangered species, then certainly a niche item in Hollywood. None of the aforementioned pictures earned as much as $100 million at the North American box office. A megahit like The Dark Knight can grab that in a weekend. Only Brokeback Mountain took in more than $80 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oscar Goes to Canada | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...expects that the first Nanos will be sold this year as promised, but there may be fewer of them. With just two plants, the company may be able to produce only 30,000 to 60,000 Nanos instead of the 200,000 vehicles it had hoped to sell to grab at least 5% of the two-wheeler market. A Tata Motors spokesman said it was too early to tell whether volume will be affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People vs. the People's Car | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...University architects have developed a showcase ecotourism project: a Peace Park on an island in the middle of the river, where Jordanians and Israelis may one day meet without passports or visas. The Peace Park would also be a concrete way of fighting the mistrust that pushes countries to grab and hoard as much water as they can. "War will not generate water," says Nader Al-Khateeb, the Palestinian director of FOEME. "But peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard From Jordan Valley | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

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