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The course at Playas, funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and run by New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, is one of five training centers in the U.S. that deal with nuclear, biological and chemical threats. New Mexico concentrates on high explosives. It has another facility, a 40...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Playas | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

Zimbabwe's regeneration, says Michelle Gavin, Adjunct Scholar on Africa at the Council on Foreign Relations, "would have to be an all-hands-on-deck effort." International financial institutions and donors, which ended their involvement to protest the regime's corruption and human rights abuses, would be likely to step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe Waits to Exhale | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

Instead of rolling all our problems into one big war, in which rape and coal-mining are equivalent, those in favor of change would be (and often are) better served by careful parsing of the distinctions, by working through the possibility of unintended consequences before acting, and by drawing connections...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Apocalyptic Visions | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

Still, better days lie ahead for Zhaoyuan and for China's gold-mining industry. Beijing began reforms in the mid-1990s, encouraging the hodgepodge of small operators to consolidate and allowing foreign companies to form joint ventures so that Chinese companies could learn modern management practices, financial controls, and environmental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Glitter Factory | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

Could the next BHP Billiton, the world's biggest mining company, be Chinese? Observers say it's possible, given high metals prices and China's untapped reserves. But listed domestic miners have ambitions beyond China's borders. Zijin, China's leading gold miner, last year purchased a company with gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Glitter Factory | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

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