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Other sacred cows will need to be challenged. India's old socialist system may have had its problems, says Imrana Qadeer, one of India's foremost public-health experts, but the belief that private enterprise can cure all of India's woes is dangerously misguided. "The private sector doesn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Medical Emergency | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

The government’s apparent reluctance to yield under this scrutiny makes Staples’s decision to keep mum on Darfur all the more misguided. This not to say that Staples was wrong to insist international diplomacy should come first—it certainly should.

Author: By Joanna Naples-mitchell | Title: A Matter of Conscience | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

There are many trade-offs in the ongoing process of making changes to better the environment in this country. More efficient cars rarely have as much horsepower as less efficient ones, organic foods are more expensive than their non-organic counterparts, and so on. These compromises must be weighed, but...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Winds of Change | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

Implicitly - and correctly - Standard Operating Procedure - wants us to remember that Abu Ghraib was not an anomaly, an isolated incident that can be apologized for, swept aside, blamed on the ignorance and stupidity of the ?other ranks? as the British have always rather contemptuously called their dogfaces. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standard Operating Procedure: Too Much Style? | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

The crisis has its roots in four interlinked trends. The first is the chronically low productivity of farmers in the poorest countries, caused by their inability to pay for seeds, fertilizers and irrigation. The second is the misguided policy in the U.S. and Europe of subsidizing the diversion of food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to End the Global Food Shortage | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

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