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...people living on less than $2 a day shrank from 67% in 1981 to 47% in 2004. But $2 still isn't very much. And other research, such as a 2004 report by the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, has found that while the average person might be better off in absolute terms, he or she is often relatively worse off: 59% of the planet's population lives in countries with widening inequality, while just 5% is in countries where disparity is declining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poverty Trap | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

...person auditorium in Tehran's Artists' House is so completely packed that at least 40 people are crowded around its entrance in the adjacent hallway. Inside, the heat is on - both literally and figuratively. An audience of mostly twentysomething men and women is here to see Mohsen Namjoo, the new local sensation whose music combines classical Persian music and poetry with such Western imports as rock and blues. While dozens of traditional, classical and pop music concerts are staged in Tehran every year, rock's standing is still unsettled. What has made this event permissible under the conservative strictures that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Me, Ahmadinejad! | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

...salted rice for her children. While she feeds them, her husband sifts through the mounds of grease-stained cardboard boxes, plastic bags, and broken glass that crowd their home. He'll sell his rotten harvest for about $3.50. For their family of seven, that?s 50 cents per person, per day. The arithmetic is simple, Bing says. "With every child I have, there is less rice each. I can?t give them all a good life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines' Birth Control Battle | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

...having high-level interactions with detainees, having emotional confrontations with them - and carrying weapons," Horam says. "But he was part of a highly trained team, and we didn't want to lose him. So we put him on an SSRI, and within a week, he was a new person, and we got him back to full duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Medicated Army | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...fund raising, once the realm of the richest in politics, became a grassroots organizational tool. At nearly every event this year, Team Obama set up little tabletop trinket shops, known as "chum stores" because all those little Obama-branded doodads aren't only keepsakes; they are also bait. Every person who buys a button or hat is recorded as a campaign donor. But the real goal of the chum operations was building a list of workers, supporters and their e-mail addresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Did It | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

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