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Few Mexico City residents currently heed such advice. Keen on long showers and washing their cars, homes and clothes well, the average Mexico City resident uses 300 liters of waters per day compared to 180 per day in some European cities, says Arreguin. Furthermore, on Easter Saturdays, residents traditionally have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dry Taps in Mexico City: A Water Crisis Gets Worse | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

“There is something about the profession of impresario, the entire tribe of them, that has fascinated me ever since I learned that such weird and exotic beings existed,” said the late Clive Barnes, one of the preeminent dance critics from the turn of the...

Author: By Erica A. Sheftman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Celebrates Centennial of the Ballet Russes | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

Like Job's, Cyrus' life story has been made into a book, Miles to Go. Hers is a memoir and a little longer (she's 16, after all), but both are tales of remarkable turns of fortune. At 12, Cyrus scored the lead role in the Disney TV series Hannah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miley Cyrus Meets Hannah Montana, At the Multiplex | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

As part of the market reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the country privatized vast portions of its health care system. The same market forces that helped China become an economic giant have undermined its health care system. Central government funding plunged, and citizens are expected to make up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's New Healthcare Could Cover Millions More | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

I got an unexpected lesson in the power of the U.S. dollar during a visit to Tashkent, the dreary capital of Uzbekistan, several years back. While heading into town from the airport, my babbling taxi driver kept one hand (barely) on the steering wheel while his other shoved a stack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Almighty Dollar Doomed? | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

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