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That's a dire prediction given that further outbreaks are expected throughout Asia in the coming months, according to Peter Cordingley, a spokesman for the World Health Organization. Cordingley says he's not surprised that the virus, which spreads most readily via wild birds migrating during the winter months, has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Hong Kong's Bird Flu Vaccine Failing? | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

Since Goldman Sachs’s Jim O’Neil started promoting his dream of the BRICs—developing markets in Brazil, Russia, India and China—in 2001, Brazil has often been considered the ugly duckling of the group. Next to a former superpower and two...

Author: By Flavio S. Campos | Title: BRIC Starts with B | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

• "He was right"- President-elect Barack Obama on Shinsaki's prediction of the troop levels needed to maintain the peace in Iraq

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Eric Shinseki | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

The movie Frost is deeply indebted to the parodists' image. He's a man who has a smile for every crisis, a glib deflection of every insult. The main character change in the film is when Frost stops trying to seduce Nixon and starts quizzing him like a prosecutor. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Nixon Got Frosted: Capturing History | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

"There was an optimism going into the holiday season that online would weather the storm a little bit better," says Jessica Ried, associate director of research for Resource Interactive, an online-marketing consultancy. "But this year in November we've seen the first online-sales decrease ever." For the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Cyber Monday. Will E-Retailers Have a Letdown? | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

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