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...throughout the past decade, but the richest year for them was probably 2008. Two of the most illuminating works published then were Leslie T. Chang's Factory Girls, which provided a moving account of migrant workers that was wonderfully sensitive to divides rooted in location, gender and generation, and Michael Meyer's The Last Days of Old Beijing, which offered a poignant look at breakneck development. (See portraits of Chinese workers...
...partners in what will become a regular event. All three organizations will guide and contribute to the discussions as well as cover them online, in print and on air. Topics will range from the future of microfinance to business strategies for emerging markets to breakthroughs in science and health. Michael Elliott, TIME's international editor, has been steering the content and ideas for the forum from our end. As he says, "We've given the conference the title the New Global Opportunity because there's a realization that we can't go back to the old ways. Growth...
While working on the program, Gates learned that television personality and cardiothoracic surgeon Mehmet C. Oz ’82, who is Muslim, and Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony-award winning director Michael I. Nichols, who is Jewish, have a common ancestor...
Like many residents in the cluster of towns northeast of Melbourne, Michael Minten and his partner Sharon Collins were caught completely off-guard when last year's 'Black Saturday' infernos swallowed their property in Flowerdale, Victoria. Minten went ahead to work in the morning, leaving Collins at home with their toddler. The sky was a hazy amber as the fire raged in nearby towns, but no one thought the flames would reach Flowerdale. With typical summer temperatures of 115 degrees, Collins did what she usually did on hot days: crank up air-conditioning full-blast, and draw the blinds...
Chefs around the world have come to embrace what might be called the New Naturalism - a culinary dogma that practically verges on the pantheistic. West Coast superchef Michael Mina is even going so far as to poach fish in actual seawater at his Vegas restaurant American Fish. Unfortunately, like all infatuations, this one comes with some baggage...