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Reverberations from the implosion of the U.S. debt bubble can be felt a long way from Wall Street. Gaurav Rege was a hotel manager near Rishikesh, an Indian hill station at the foot of the Himalayas. He and his new wife are young, educated, well-off - and worried. A member of India's growing consumer culture, Rege, 30, took out an adjustable-rate loan two years ago to buy an investment property near Bangalore, but his monthly payments have jumped because of tighter credit and rising interest rates. He has abandoned plans to get an M.B.A. because student loans...
...Near the end of the program, Fogarty was asked to write about the fires, a task that brought both relief and anxiety. "I thought, it's so nice to begin to be honest about this," she says. But as she started reliving the trauma, "I felt I needed someone alongside me to help me do it." At her online guide's suggestion, she now sees a counselor once a month; the cost is covered by Medicare. "E-therapy was a really positive first step," she says. "It brought me to where I needed...
...black square rides on a background only very slightly less black. Rothko wasn't fiddling with an art-historical endgame here, trying to see how flat and stark he could make his pictures. The Black-Form paintings, as they are known, are emblems for existence itself, statements at a near-molecular level of detail about the minimal order necessary to distinguish life from the disorder of death. Indeed, look at them long enough and they make you think of a doorway into extinction. Do they prefigure Rothko's suicide in 1970? We don't know. What we do know...
...Early on Sept. 30, as 12,000 worshippers gathered in the city of Jodhpur for the start of a nine-day Hindu religious festival, a sudden panic caused a stampede that killed at least 200 people and injured at least 60 more. An official said a wall had collapsed near the Chamunda Devi temple and alarmed revelers; other reports blamed a bomb scare and a group trying to cut in line...
...truth to his p.r. strategy--his television appearances are now widely ignored, and his approval ratings have touched an all-time low of 23%, according to a new TIME poll. His Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson Jr., wasn't a much more compelling pitchman for near absolute power to help his former Wall Street colleagues; his public warnings that disaster was imminent but that the evidence had to remain secret were reminiscent of antiterrorism officials who raised the threat level to orange but refused to tell us why. Even the old claim of a rare bipartisan agreement...