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...three years. (Last year, Pepsi announced a $1 billion investment in China over the next four years.) Coke opened a $90 million research center this year in Shanghai, where it has developed new products like the grape, lemon and mixed-fruit flavors added to the Chinese version of Minute Maid, a pulpy fruit drink known as Guo Li Chen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coke's Recession Boomlet | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...down to make way for villages and cities, and the endangered vultures can be injured in aircraft collisions. And that's not only bad news for the birds. Countries where vultures are most threatened, such as Nepal, India and Pakistan, rely heavily on vultures for a kind of natural maid service: as they clear out dead animals, the risk of disease is also reduced. Dangerous wild-dog packs that feed on dead livestock have also flourished without competition from the birds, says Todd Katzner of Pittsburgh's National Aviary, leading to a new surge of rabies, particularly in Mumbai. "People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Restaurant for Vultures. Literally | 8/15/2009 | See Source »

...wanted to draw up a candidate for a party that needs to stop alienating young, Hispanic, Catholic and working-class voters and start inspiring its dispirited base of fiscal and social conservatives, Rubio would be it. He's the son of Cuban exiles, a bartender and a hotel maid who raised him to remember that faith matters, work pays and politics can stifle liberty in a big way. He's married to a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, and he's got four young children. He's only 5 ft. 9 in. and 160 lb., with a sweet-faced earnestness that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOP at War with Itself in Florida Senate Race | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...contributor to National Lampoon magazine, where his "Vacation '58" humor piece led him into movies, he learned to deliver work that was fast and good and never slowed the pace. If his name didn't appear on recent films, that's because he wrote the Beethoven movies, Maid in Manhattan and last year's Drillbit Taylor under the pseudonym Edmond Dantes (taken from The Count of Monte Cristo). In his prime he was known for writing 74 script pages in a night and rarely taking more than five days to complete a first draft. (Read a 1986 TIME cover story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hughes, Chronicler of '80s Teens, Dies | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...agency until he or she pays off the money given to his family. The June court statement issued out of Delhi was over the case of local couple who had been accused by police of hiring and ill-treating a 15-year-old girl working as their maid. The couple pleaded that they did not know the girl was a minor, and that the placement agency told them that she was over 18. The case put the spotlight back on the thousands of illegal agencies operating in the Delhi and surrounding region, and the need for a regulatory body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Under Pressure to Do More to Stop Child Labor | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

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