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Proulx's Wyoming is a hard-pressed place. Baked into desert by chronic drought, poisoned by toxic runoff from mining operations and chopped and diced into real estate, it's forever verging on the uninhabitable. "The country wanted to go to sand dunes and rattlesnakes," she writes, "wanted to scrape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small Is Beautiful | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Then, about five minutes into his answer to my question "Why did you become a Mormon?" Reid lets slip that he once got into a fistfight with his father-in-law-to-be, an observant Jew who opposed the marriage for religious reasons, and I realize how perfect both portraits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats' Hope in the Desert | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Lenovo is one of a small but growing number of Chinese firms that are trying to ease profit pressure at home through global acquisitions. Guangdong-based TCL last year bought the television arm (including the RCA brand) of French electronics giant Thomson. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. is in talks to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IBM Puts The PC In Its Past | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Sam Jonah has been a global citizen since he left his native Ghana in his early 20s to study mining in Wales and then work in the mines in Australia. As head of Ashanti Goldfields, the gregarious Jonah helped steer Ghana's biggest company through the rocky waters of international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sam Jonah: ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Adeang's recent budget foreshadows the pain to come, although there will be funding gains for education and health. The "most difficult budget any government on Nauru has ever had to deliver to Parliament," according to Adeang, it will impose big spending cuts and new fees, including a 10% customs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Nauru Get a Second Chance? | 12/14/2004 | See Source »

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