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...boda boda” the most convenient transit system in Kampala also make it the most dangerous. To wary city drivers such as my friend, “boda bodas” are rogue marauders careening around the congested traffic like an accident waiting to happen. And they do happen. Often. “Boda boda” crashes are the second leading cause of admission to the city’s main hospital, Mulago...
...subsidies for Chinese companies to price their exports in renminbi. One economist, Qu Hongbin of HSBC in Hong Kong, goes so far as to say that 40% to 50% of China's overall trade flows could be settled in renminbi by 2012 (though few other economists believe this will happen anywhere near that fast). This willingness to make its positions known publicly and push other governments to see things China's way "is very different from 10 years ago, when Beijing was much quieter and more low-profile," says Jun Ma, an economist at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong...
...title. The most likely scenario for the future, Jacques writes, is that "China continues to grow stronger and ultimately emerges over the next half-century, or rather less in many respects, as the world's leading power." His book is an examination of how and why that will happen, and what it will mean. (Read "China Takes on the World...
...that going to happen occasionally or at least that I'm not going to be able to get what I want? Here's how I've described it, and this is the truth as I see it: there is nothing that would make you healthier that health reform would prevent you from getting...
...personal reset had been a blessing in disguise. "The heaviness of being successful," Jobs has said of his firing, "was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life." I happen to know what Jobs means: my sacking as editor of New York magazine 13 years ago freed me to reinvent myself as a novelist and public-radio host. Getting fired was traumatic. Finding my way since has been thrilling and immensely gratifying. May America and Americans have such good luck figuring...