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Walmart, the world's largest retailer, has seen better days. Yes, profits rose 22%, to $4.63 billion, in the fourth quarter of '09. Even coming out of the Great Recession, many consumers are trading down to shop at the discount superstore. However, for the third straight quarter the store saw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walmart, Suffering a Rare Slump, Fights Back on Prices | 3/20/2010 | See Source »

If Khafif sounds proprietary about something with Trump's name on it, it's because the project was his idea in the first place. When the Colombian-born developer came up with the plans for the building in 2005, amid Panama City's real-estate explosion, he realized it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Donald Trump Goes on an Adventure in Panama | 3/20/2010 | See Source »

Cheung is particularly concerned about maternal perpetrators of filicide-suicide in Hong Kong, many of whom have been immigrants from mainland China married to local men. "These immigrant wives aren't eligible for welfare systems or public housing until they fulfill a seven-year residency requirement," says Cheung. "If their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong: Parent-Child Suicides Are Rising | 3/19/2010 | See Source »

It's starting to seem as if the Olympic gods have it in for Russia. A month ago at the Vancouver Games, the Russian team had its worst showing ever at a Winter Olympics, leading the head of the country's Olympic Committee to resign in disgrace. Now Moscow's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in Sochi: Russia's Mounting Olympic Problems | 3/19/2010 | See Source »

But despite all the problems, Putin insists that everything in Sochi is fine. "So far, both the timeline and the financing [are] going according to plan," he told RIA Novosti last month. For him, the stakes are enormous, as he made it his personal mission two years ago to win...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in Sochi: Russia's Mounting Olympic Problems | 3/19/2010 | See Source »

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