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...with breathless gawking at the cityscape below. A pair of huge 150-ton dampers - weights that absorb the motion of a swaying building - eliminate sloshing in the world's loftiest pool. The world's fastest elevators must ascend at the rate of 10 meters a second in order to make journey times tolerable. Such is life at the world's tallest hotel - or the tallest for now, at any rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shanghai High Life | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...style bathrooms with rain showers and heated floors. There's also a big sitting area, which is just as well. Chances are you'll be spending a lot of time there, mutely relishing views that are truly out of this world - and hopefully not waiting for your shirts to make the long haul back from the laundry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shanghai High Life | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...Egyptian people feel a lot of pressure every day. Life is difficult here. It is hard to find money, to make a living, and this is a hard thing to escape from," says Gamel, who packed 700 customers into every available inch of his restaurant on game night. "So football is a way to find joy, to escape from these pressures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cairo Braces for a Soccer Bombshell | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

That's a troubling situation for China's potential adversaries to find themselves in, particularly as, unlike in conventional military training, what China's hackers are doing is the real thing, not make-believe. "The skill sets needed to penetrate a network for intelligence-gathering purposes in peacetime are the same skills necessary to penetrate that network for offensive action during wartime," notes a recent congressional report on China's alleged clandestine cyberattacks in the U.S. According to the report, released in October by the congressionally mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, that means that "if Chinese operators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberwarfare: The Issue China Won't Touch | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...defining images of the African political élite has been the silhouette of a figure sitting behind tinted glass or drawn curtains in the backseat of a luxury car. The car's model may vary, and the color too, but nine times out of 10 the make is Mercedes-Benz. In Swahili, which is spoken throughout eastern Africa, members of the ruling class are even known by the nickname wabenzi, or "people of the Benz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenyan Outrage after Leaders Ditch Mercedes | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

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