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...hour workweek and more. In a turnabout of the exploited and the exploiter, small-business employers feel used, and many dream of the day when they too can be employees. That is no way to get an economy moving. Somehow governments and voters can't make the leap of imagination and realize that less taxation can bring greater benefits to the country - not the American-style tax breaks for the rich, but incentives for independent and struggling entrepreneurs. Suzanne Nash Taby, Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Heroes | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

...hour work week and more. In a turnabout of the exploited and the exploiter, small-business employers feel used, and many dream of the day when they too can be employees. That is no way to get an economy moving. Somehow governments and voters can't make the leap of imagination and realize that less taxation can bring greater benefits to the country?not the American-style tax breaks for the rich, but incentives for independent and struggling entrepreneurs. Suzanne Nash Taby, Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

...maybe 2,000 digital screens in the US, it’ll be feasible,” McCallum predicts. Why the uncertainties about the release date? “Theater owners are so greedy,” he says, citing their unwillingness to make the leap to digital. That last comment, along with the aforementioned quotation about Star Wars being a blip, reveal what just might be the central tenet of the McCallum ethos: constant rebellion against the force of film-industry conservatism, all in the name of wild entertainment “You’re losing...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rick McCallum Reveals Next Steps for 'Star Wars' | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

...that's a giant leap from 2003, when only three people redeemed. Space Adventures' first client was American businessman Dennis Tito, who paid $20 million of his own money to go to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2001. It's the ultimate travel high. tel: (1-888) 857-7223; www.spaceadventures.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of this World | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

...young man who harbored "a love for bloodthirsty thuggery." And then he turned really nasty. Mao purged and murdered rivals. He pigged out on exotic delicacies amid the mass starvation his policies caused. (The authors cite estimates that 38 million people died of starvation and overwork during the Great Leap Forward. Mao, meanwhile, stuck to his misguided industrialization plans, blithely commenting that "half of China may well have to die.") In the 1970s, Mao even forbade surgery for his loyal No. 2, Zhou Enlai, who was suffering from cancer of the bladder, in part to ensure that Zhou would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mao That Roared | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

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