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...stakes for Afghan society are high. Every social and economic index shows that countries with a higher percentage of women with a high school education also have better overall health, a more functional democracy and increased economic performance. There's another payoff that is especially important to Afghanistan: educated women are a strong bulwark against the extremism that still plagues Afghanistan, underscored by the Jan. 14 bombing of a luxury hotel in Kabul, which killed eight. "Education is the factory that turns animals into human beings," says Ghulam Hazrat Tanha, Herat's director of education. "If women are educated, that...
...those candidates whose appeal to independents helps them win their party's nomination, the payoff down the road could be even greater. "Independents are obviously the pathway to the presidency," says Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. As McCain campaign manager Rick Davis puts it: "It's the fastest-growing party in America...
...Cheney's home state will hold their own renegade primary. It is a huge risk for the state G.O.P. They moved up the primary date without the blessing of Republican National Committee and will lose half their convention delegates for violating the rules. But there may be a big payoff: Wyoming could further confirm front-runner status for Mike Huckabee and give him momentum into the Jan. 8 primary in New Hampshire - or provide Mitt Romney with his first, if minor, stop of what might be a Huckabee steamroller...
...years. But it wasn't just flashbacks to that meltdown that initially kept venture capitalists cool on clean tech. Starting up an Internet company required relatively low levels of capital - at least before you started buying your employees massage chairs - and dangled the possibility of a quick and lucrative payoff. Cracking the energy sector, with its powerful incumbent companies and forbiddingly high capital costs, requires a more patient investor. "There may be some VCs willing to finance a $100 million project plant, but most can't," says Howard Berke, a veteran tech entrepreneur and co-founder of the solar company...
...meeting China's ravenous energy needs - especially solar, which already has a homegrown success story in billionaire Shi Zhengrong, founder of Suntech Power. Water conservation and filtering is a growing field, too - a reminder that clean tech is about more than just carbon emissions. Another difference is the faster payoff for green investment in China, driven by lower fixed costs and intensifying demand for clean energy. "All clean ventures in China are nearly immediately profitable," says Roman Shaw, founding partner of Shanghai-based venture-capital fund DT Capital. "That rarely happens in the U.S." But while China is almost certain...