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...months from the first candidacy announcement to the 2000 election, and 22 months from the first candidacy announcement to the election of 2004. Contrary to those expectations, however, voter turnout crept up from 55 percent to 61 percent. Of course, we are facing a much longer leap this time around, with a total of 30 months since Biden’s announcement back in March of 2006. But this is hardly a resounding blow against democracy. It’s hard to imagine a potential voter thinking, “I would have voted. But I just know the candidates...
...tends to be older students that either make that leap to identify or figure out their identity,” Medina said...
Five years ago, British scientist Colin Pillinger convinced the world's biggest medical-research charity, the Wellcome Trust, to bet on a project far beyond its usual scope: a probe to find life on Mars. Detecting life on other planets, he argued, would be a giant leap for mankind toward understanding the origins of life back on earth. But in 2003, the Beagle 2 probe - worth tens of millions of dollars, and carrying a gas-analysis unit bankrolled by Wellcome - disappeared without a trace into the Martian atmosphere. Four years later, scientists and funders alike are delighted...
This week, after you've taken a deepdive into the micro details of daily life in America, make a macroeconomic leap into the world of global competition. In this issue, we present TIME's inaugural "Best Countries for Business," a special report we are producing with the World Economic Forum (WEF). "Best Countries for Business" offers a formidable combination of resources: the globe's most prestigious business organization linked with the planet's best journalists to report on the heated competition among nations for investment. Alex Perry and Zoe Eisenstein file from Africa on the disparate development of Mauritius...
...time this year, he said there is no reason to think that China's economy will soon boil over simply because it's growing at about 8% to 9% a year. Japan, he pointed out, averaged a growth rate of about 10% for 25 years during its big developmental leap starting in the 1950s. China's inflation is relatively low, and a huge surplus of workers in China keeps the labor market humming--and cheap. The starting salary of an average Chinese college graduate today is one-third lower than it was three years ago, Fang said...