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...Michael's favorite holiday, I might be able to connect with that. We started at the end of July, and I turned the movie over to them in early October. We worked seven days a week every single week. We were able to accomplish a lot in a labor-of-love project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Director Kenny Ortega on Michael Jackson's Film | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...Indian farming had also become miserably inefficient. Each hectare of cultivated land in India produces half that grown in Thailand. "The government thought that after liberalization, agriculture would grow automatically, that money would go from industry" to the farms, says Shreenivas Khandewale, director of the R.S. Ruikar Institute of Labor and Socio-Cultural Studies in Nagpur. "But it didn't come...

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

Okrent's article failed to mention the cause underlying Detroit's dwindling population: globalization. The fact is that the jobs that were once done by Detroit dwellers have long since been displaced to Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe due to lower labor costs. Marx would appreciate the irony that the once glamorous auto industry, which embodies the spirit of capitalism, unleashed the forces of globalization which eventually destroyed it. David Zarecky, PRAGUE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Heroes | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Another impediment is foreclosure law itself, a bureaucratically convoluted field worthy of a Dickens novel. "It's a labor-intensive area of practice," says Paschal. "It involves a ton of paperwork." Yet another is the relatively low pay attorneys usually reap from defending foreclosure clients. Melanca Clark, counsel at the Brennan Center and co-author of this month's study, urges Congress and state legislatures to create incentives, like more funding for foreclosure legal representation, that "level the playing field" against lenders and their comparatively well-paid lawyers. Restrictions on government funding for legal services should be relaxed, she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are All the Foreclosure Lawyers? | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

...other private-sector centers of innovation. So it's been a juicy target for right-wingers who consider Schwarzenegger a squishy sellout. If a low-carbon, Big Government, change-obsessed state with high taxes on the wealthy, draconian environmental regulations, a porous border and the nation's most vibrant labor movement were imploding, what would that say about the age of Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why California is Still America?s Future | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

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