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...costs, and to manage their own rivalry and the world's regional conflicts in ways that would prevent them spinning out of control. But Moscow is no longer a global power, and Washington is no longer sure if it wants to be. Into the vacuum have stepped all manner of secessionists, religious terrorists, criminal syndicates and old-fashioned power politicians to remind us how, paradoxically, the Cold War may have actually been a stabilizing factor precisely because of the dangers it embodied...
...heads is by far their biggest investment and the most powerful determinant of how wealthy they feel - more so even than a job and definitely more than those 401(k)s that have borne the brunt of the slowdown so far. So a true real-estate bust, in the manner of the one that hit the U.S. in the late ?80s and early ?90s or the one that sent Japan careening into its coma at about the same time, would almost certainly spell recession - with a capital...
...three top priorities: sex, entertainment and finding a job. Tobaccowala tapped into No. 3 by creating a tantalizing want ad for a job at Datadyne, a fictitious company, and then placing the ad on monster.com and other job sites. Because the ad was done in a tongue-in-cheek manner, no one objected, says Tobaccowala. Job seekers were led to a website dedicated to the game. The ploy, he says, created early "buzz and heat" for Perfect Dark. By wiring the Web into traditional media, Tobaccowala has found a way to redeem a faltering newcomer...
...heavenly being that is doing them in. It's America. Asia's economies are fueled largely by companies making cars, consumer electronics and all manner of high-tech gewgaws and shipping them overseas. Exports account for more than 70% of Malaysia's and Singapore's GDPs, while the figure is around 50% in Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines. The problem is, about about half of those shipments go to the U.S., which is dealing with its own economic travails. American consumers and corporations just aren't buying like they used to, and so Asia's warehouses are overflowing with unsold...
...Later, on the island of Madura, a short ferry ride from Surabaya - where Zheng He would have anchored his boats during his visits - I meet Ma'ruf. At 27, married at 15 to a 13-year-old girl, he still has a boyish face and a loose-limbed manner. He was born and raised on Madura but, unemployed, unmoved by the prospect of spending his life in the tobacco fields, he left for Sampit in Borneo several years ago and found work as a driver. Last February, long simmering tensions between the Madurese and the native Dayaks erupted. The Dayaks...