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How long this new cease-fire will last is uncertain. Al-Sadr declared a cease-fire unilaterally last year only to see al-Maliki ignore it with the initial strike in Basra. But one thing is clear: the latest pause in the running fight between al-Sadr and the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Sadr Wins Another Round | 5/11/2008 | See Source »

Having morphed from a quiet, laid-back provincial city into a crowded, cosmopolitan metropolis of sky-high salaries and even higher ambitions, Bangalore today is a hive of stressed-out techies and managers. In many ways, the city is a microcosm of the changes India has gone through during the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stressed Out in India's Tech Capital | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

Nearly half of the Hyakunin Isshu poems are about love. Teika drew from poets as far back as the 8th century, and one of the pleasures of reading the collection is to realize that nothing has changed. A millennium later, in our drastically different culture, we immediately relate to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Timeless 100 | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

Furthermore, as higher education becomes increasingly accessible, many universities and colleges have markedly turned their attention to offering more “relevant” and “practical” programs, according to the ever- and swiftly-changing employment markets. As college degrees proliferate, awarded in every imaginable...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Presidents and Puritans | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

China's central government recognized early on that an investment bubble was probably forming. In 2004, for both economic and environmental reasons, authorities in Beijing began pressuring provincial and local officials to curb spending on aluminum, steel and cement factories; state-owned banks were periodically told to stop lending for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's At-Risk Factories | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

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