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...Milan if you're not working at 8 p.m. you're not successful. I feel like I'm on holiday." The conversation quickly turns to comparisons. "Berlin is like Paris in the '30s," Andorlini says. "It's a place where artists gather and things spring out of nothing." Grazioli isn't so sure. "It's more like New York in the '60s," he says. "All those abandoned lofts in SoHo." (See a TIME video on the the words - and deeds - that brought down the Berlin Wall...
...concept of linking some of the world's fastest-growing economies isn't new. Various versions of an Asian free-trade zone have been mooted in the past. But with Asian economies leading the world out of recession while America languishes, the topic is coming up with increasing frequency. At a meeting of regional leaders hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Thailand last month, Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama proposed an "East Asian community" that would bind together Japan, China, South Korea and the 10 countries of Southeast Asia, plus India, Australia and New Zealand. Hatoyama...
...sake of savings," says Tan Khee Giap, chair of the Singapore chapter of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council. "It's that for thousands of years they had to save to protect themselves." In other words, making it easier for other Asian countries to access China's market isn't the same as convincing Chinese consumers to spend more. "The Chinese remind everyone it will take a long time," says Menon of Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry. According to Citigroup, China will indeed become the world's largest retail market - by 2030. That's a lengthy wait for some...
Even one of his closest advisers isn't sure he's right for politics. Governor Chavit Singson, 68, of the province of Ilocos Sur, in the northern part of the archipelago, hangs out with Pacquiao all the time. He styles himself a kingmaker but is unclear whether Manny can be a king. "He is so humble," Singson says. "He's a simple person." Singson, however, may be a role model for Pacquiao. The governor amassed his fortune as a tobacco-plantation owner and travels in a private plane and in a bulletproof Hummer. He is an epitome of Philippine politics...
...these solutions a reality (a CO[subscript 2] tax and a cap-and-trade system). It's packed with scientific data explained in painstaking detail--including a full-page graphic on how a wind turbine works--but it reads like a homework assignment. Gore's excellent lessons--why biofuel isn't as environmentally friendly as you'd think; why large-scale, sustainable changes won't occur until financial markets take climate costs into account--are presented as tedious lectures. As with flossing every day or eating healthier foods, Americans should make an effort to understand and solve the climate crisis...