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...learning from its mistakes. To keep attracting foreign residents with the skills to run a modern economy - and to better educate its own citizens so they can play a bigger role in that economy - the gulf's cities will also have to open up more. Dubai could well lead the way. "Dubai has been proving naysayers wrong for so long that I'm wary of being pessimistic," says Jim Krane, author of City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism. "It's certainly in a deep hole. [But] the entire world has a stake in its success...
Former Vice President Laura Chinchilla won a Feb. 7 vote to become the first woman elected to lead Costa Rica. A protégé of the outgoing President, Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias, Chinchilla is expected to continue Arias' economic policies and his efforts as peace broker in the region. A social conservative, Chinchilla opposes gay marriage and abortion and has promised to combat the country's increasing crime rate...
...Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders since 1994. Draft changes to the manual--considered by many to be the bible of modern psychiatry--include broadening the spectrums of eating disorders and autism. Though the updates may help make diagnoses more accurate, critics say they could also lead to overdiagnosis of some illnesses...
...global financial system. As for No. 4, given that there are no procedures for leaving the euro, it might risk unraveling the entire project. In the euro's prelaunch period, a few skeptics predicted that the mismatch between a single European currency and differing national economic conditions would eventually lead to tension and an ugly breakup. The euro, heretofore one of the great political and economic successes of the past decade, is now undergoing a stress test of that hypothesis...
...Evolution of a GenreThe summer of the first Survivor season, I wrote a cover story about it for this magazine. The concerns that the show's popularity raised seem so quaint now: a professor worried its success would lead to "Let's try a public execution. Let's try a snuff film." We're still waiting for those. But Survivor is still on - considered, together with the likes of Idol and The Amazing Race, to be relatively tame, even family-oriented entertainment. (See pictures of American Idol winners...