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...seen during the traumatic and bloody independence of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), has a habit of trying to brutally stomp out secessionist movements. At a moment when there are so many hearts and minds to be won - and boots on the ground stretched so thin - it wouldn't hurt to give peace a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Other Problem Area: Baluchistan | 11/1/2009 | See Source »

...Ultimately, getting a child's candy X-rayed can't hurt - as long as parents aren't too preoccupied with overblown threats to watch out for real ones. "We do want to check the candy," says Hodges. "At the same time, we have to focus our energies on how kids are actually getting hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Trick-or-Treating Dangerous? | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...house competition, which will definitely star several over-eager section kids. As the Harvard Band plays the one song it knows (I’m sure you’d recognize the fateful tune), the rally is bound to be a bore—unless, of course, someone gets hurt...

Author: By Ryan D. Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hate it: Pep Rally | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...Tiwari's protectionist approach could actually hurt farmers. The World Bank's Delgado says that most projections show trade liberalization in agriculture would create significant increases in prices - as much as 20% for cotton and 7% for food grains. Not only would those gains increase the incentive for farmers to grow greater quantities of food, but they would also put more money in farmers' pockets, creating a new source of global demand. But with World Trade Organization negotiations on agricultural trade stalled on the issue of subsidies, it seems unlikely that farmers in Vidarbha and elsewhere will see these benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Land: The New Green Revolution | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...time.com/levitt.) Aside from the complexity, there's a crucial data limitation. "We have one macroeconomy," Levitt explains. "We get to watch the world unfold once." That means we have no way of knowing for sure whether the bank bailouts, to name one topical example, helped the economy or hurt it. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the World Ready for Freakonomics Again? | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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