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...centers currently offer money orders, bill payment and phone cards in a newly designated space painted a bright, "firefly gold" in each store. Because the counters are open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week, they are as quick and convenient as anything but 24-hour check cashers. The $3 check-cashing fee is far lower than the average 1% to 3% charged by regular check cashers, and the Visa MoneyCards cost $8.94 plus a $4.94 monthly maintenance fee. As with any Visa card, a PIN number or signature is required for each transaction, and the card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wal-Mart's Unbanking Business | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...hotelier's family is typical Rajasthani aristocracy, a fixture of the majestically violent landscape that has drawn tourists to this arid northwestern state of India for decades. But there is a difference, at least in this remote Shekhawati region of Rajasthan where Mandawa sits, a scorching five-and-half-hour drive through the desert from New Delhi. But rather than reminisce about the martial adventures of his forefathers, Kesri Singh is preoccupied these days with his former subjects, the "Marwari" merchants who were once moneylenders and traders in the dusty camel-filled town that sprawls around the ramparts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Maharajah and the Merchants | 6/19/2007 | See Source »

Dozens of eager foodies waited an hour on line in the plush London neighborhood of Kensington, last week, to sample the wares of the first British outlet of the upscale U.S. supermarket chain Whole Foods. But winning over the epicurious is the easy part of promoting the healthy-eating oriented chain in the land of toad-in-the-hole and chip butties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whole Foods Hits the Land of Mushy Peas | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...Elbow Room I was bemused to see Gordon Brown pictured in a "rush-hour" tube in London [June 4]. The day a rush-hour tube is that empty is the day Brown will stop taxing anything that moves. Warren Whyte, BUCKINGHAM, ENGLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honoring Lives Lost | 6/12/2007 | See Source »

...Local human rights groups accused the government of a policy tantamount to ethnic cleansing - some evictees had as little as half an hour to get ready according to activists, and many were bused to places where they knew no one. The government defense spokesperson Keheliya Rambukwella initially said that there had been no forced evictions, and that all those who had left the capital had done so voluntarily. Later, other government officials said that those evicted had been suspected of plotting to bomb government installations in the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Ethnic Cleansing" in Sri Lanka? | 6/11/2007 | See Source »

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