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...rent on his tiny, 300-sq.-ft. (28 sq m) apartment, which he shares with his wife and two sons, has tripled since 2004 to $150 a month. He's overpaying. Chunks of crumbling concrete fall from the ceiling onto his bed; a small room serves as both kitchen and toilet. But due to an influx of foreign construction laborers, Ng can't find enough work - he reckons he's spending 50% fewer days on the job this year compared with a few years ago. There's an abundance of employment opportunities in the gaming industry but Ng lacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Split Personality | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...principally to their company, Nippon Steel. A year later, he married Leah Freudlsberger, whose father was an art lecturer at a Tokyo university and whose mother was from a distinguished Japanese family. When the war ended, Eisenberg's fortunes took off. He sold the U.S. army of occupation kitchen and bathroom equipment made of aluminum from downed aircraft, and continued brokering the iron ore and other imports Japan needed to rebuild its ruined economy. As soon as the Korean War was over, he opened an office in Seoul, got to know the most important political and military leaders, put together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL'S SECRET WEAPON | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...video for Jeremy and forced to sign a record contract with a major label," gripes Alternative Nation's veejay, who goes by the name of Kennedy. Her advice: "Don't bite the hand that feeds you, and if you're not hungry, get the hell out of the kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK'S ANXIOUS REBELS | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

Best of all is books on demand--delivered in seconds to the kitchen table on Sunday as I read the weekly book reviews. How great is that? With Amazon charging $9.99 a title, often a third the price of a new hardcover, the $359 device pays for itself after you buy about 25 books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warming to the Kindle | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...case, the preoccupations of the West - fighting terrorism and narcotics - are not the priorities of Afghans like Nabi, Zia and Hussein. Their major concerns are the state of the economy and basic services. Nabi has to keep working in a guesthouse kitchen at the age of 66 to feed his family. Like most other Afghans, he can barely afford bread: the price of flour has tripled in the past year as a result of a surge in global commodity prices. Unpredictable and uncontrollable events such as this may prove much more important than any international policy for the survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Save Afghanistan | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

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