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Trade can be slow, and a gaggle of bored shopkeepers sit around a table sipping tea as a couple of college-aged students browse for gifts for their professors. Most customers buy fossils for others, as gifts or bribes. After an initial rush, shopkeepers say, demand has leveled out, although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fossils Fuel a Chinese Boom | 8/27/2007 | See Source »

In the first half of 1948, Teresa took a basic medical course before launching herself alone onto the streets of Calcutta. She wrote, "My soul at present is in perfect peace and joy." Kolodiejchuk includes her moving description of her first day on the job: "The old man lying on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

Sources in Ramallah, one close to the Palestinian President and another from within the Fatah movement's ruling council, have told TIME that Abbas's advisers provoked the power cut by falsely warning the Europeans that Hamas was pocketing the electricity bill payments. Abbas's office has publicly denied trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Lights Went Out in Gaza | 8/22/2007 | See Source »

DLF is doing just that. Barely known outside its northern-India base a few years ago, the company is building houses, apartments, office towers and shopping malls across India's booming cities. It has plans for airports, hotels and cinemas. Singh, 75, wants to be a prime mover in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a Dream | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

Almost two years after being fired, Aguirre won some measure of vindication in the Congressional report. "Our investigation has uncovered real failures at the SEC, and fixing those problems will take real reforms," said Senator Charles Grassley when he introduced the executive summary into the Congressional record on August 3...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Undue Influence at the SEC? | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

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