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Will you visit Zimbabwe again? Good God no. It's ruined. Under the whites it was an extremely efficient country. It could grow absolutely anything. We had railways and post offices and roads and water that worked. You can't just put that back overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doris Lessing Q and A | 7/11/2008 | See Source »

...avoid unrest, leaders cannot blindly adopt draconian anti-inflation measures. That's because they risk public backlash if they overreact to the inflation threat and kill economic growth in the process. Developing nations need to grow quickly to create jobs and increase incomes for their large populations. Asians from India to South Korea have come to expect high growth as almost a God-given right, and in an increasingly democratized region, voters won't hesitate to toss out of office any politician who doesn't deliver the goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger Trap | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...account of the real-life events surrounding the death in custody of an Aboriginal man nearly four years ago is the more powerful for her not making explicit all of her conclusions about the case. Without these in the way, the reader's own feelings have room to grow. Anger and sadness coalesce into something like despair: in 21st century Australia, how could this story have played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Winners | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...harass wealthy South Americans, some people will always want to come to Florida. In anticipation of the next boom, developer Pérez has set up a $1 billion fund to buy distressed properties, and Zalewski of Condo Vultures has been besieged by foreign investors. "Eventually, Florida is going to grow again," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Florida the Sunset State? | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...question is whether it will grow up. If Florida can reinvent itself, it can be the tip of the American spear, showing the nation how to save water and energy, manage growth, restore ecosystems and retool economies in an era of less. But that will require a new kind of reinvention. "We know how to crash and how to recover," says Miami historian Arva Moore Parks. "We don't seem to know how to learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Florida the Sunset State? | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

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