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...much as U.S. President-elect Barack Obama now promises to do in America. But ditch-digging on a national scale, Beijing knows, will not take China where it needs to go. Only if leaders execute a series of complex alterations to the foundations of its economic growth will China maintain its momentum. "The [global slump] is absolutely accelerating the fundamental changes that were already taking place," says Daniel Rosen, a principal at the Rhodium Group, a New York City - based economic-consulting firm. "The Chinese may have understandably felt entitled to relax a bit after 30 years of wrenching change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: A New Miracle | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...organic became a lot less important when the recession rolled in. Sales of Spam, which comes in neither of those varieties, haven't been this big since World War II, when soldiers overseas were sent vacuum-sealed cans of cooked pork shoulder, ham, water, sugar, salt, sodium nitrite (to maintain the porcine color) and potato starch (to maintain the cat-food-like consistency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome Back, Spam | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...accepted to Harvard. Out of hundreds of applicants to her seminar, “Extremism: Causes, Consequences, Cures,” Vines was one of the select few accepted.While some instructors said that the inherent value of taking a seminar is more important than the specific subject matter, others maintain that when a professor designs a course around her specialized area of research, she should be able to choose students that have expressed a particular interest in this narrow field of study.This translates into a point of disagreement as to whether the essay element of the application should be eliminated...

Author: By Bita M. Assad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Program in Progress | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...right"- President-elect Barack Obama on Shinsaki's prediction of the troop levels needed to maintain the peace in Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Eric Shinseki | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...largely responsible for assisting the U.S.'s ousting of the Taliban in 2001 are now deeply entrenched in Afghan society. They have positions in government, in the police, in the army and in business. Though they have largely relinquished their tanks and heavy artillery, most have been able to maintain their core militias in the form of private security companies, political parties or loose business networks. Allegations of land grabs, rape, murder and kidnapping are rife. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Afghan human rights organizations such as Samimi's have documented extortion rackets run by former warlords and militia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warlords Toughen US Task in Afghanistan | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

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