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...holds the key. Its legendary excesses of precautionary savings are traceable to two major developments: massive layoffs associated with over 15 years of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reforms and the lack of an institutionalized social safety net. With SOE reforms likely to be ongoing - albeit probably at a slower pace in the years ahead - China needs more aggressive initiatives in the areas of social security, pensions, medical care and unemployment insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution of Asia | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...scooters, horses and Segways. The basic law: stay under 35 m.p.h., unless your vehicle is crash-tested and certified for higher speeds. Of course, good old gas guzzlers are welcome too, as long as they go slow. "Everyone that's in this movement has a yearning for a slower pace," says Dean Curtis, who operates the website Green Interstate. "The great thing about the green highways is that they already exist. People just have to be reacquainted with them." (See the history of the electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off the Interstate: Turning 'Blue Highways' Green | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

That's the message that Hanses hopes will get local communities on board and draw a new generation of travelers to a countryside they haven't seen yet - and at a pace they may not be accustomed to. "We can't get away from the need for speed, but what we can do is change the driver intent," Hanses says. "We want people to experience the country and towns in their new EVs the same way people experienced it with their horse and buggies a hundred years ago." In other words, travelers, unplug while plugging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off the Interstate: Turning 'Blue Highways' Green | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

When History Professor Niall C. D. Ferguson begins his lecture at 10:07 a.m., he abandons the podium, choosing instead to pace in a slow, deliberate loop around the lectern. He speaks with the kind of proper British accent that makes Anglophiles swoon. As he makes an argument about the French Revolution, his throat wraps around certain words with a silky aggression that he punctuates by cocking an eyebrow or gesturing with his left hand, index finger and thumb closed into an “o” around a stub of chalk. His words are actually improvised. His paper...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professors Who Rock Harvard | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...college sailing’s largest regatta, the Crimson co-eds were able to keep pace, finishing 13th in a field of 26 schools representing most of New England college sailing...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Splits Up, Has Mixed Results | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

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