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...Crimson had been used to playing indoors due to the weather conditions in Cambridge. The transition to outdoor play was not necessarily easy, as heavy rain fell throughout the weekend...
...there are as many perils as potential riches in the China market. Get things wrong and you'll find yourself in all sorts of trouble. That's why it is so important to have at your side advisers who know China inside out. This week, our story Let it Rain! profiles five such guides, including one who learned his key business lessons when exiled to the Gobi Desert during the Cultural Revolution, and another who likes to take Chinese partners mountain biking in Arizona...
...Rain! is the opening story in TIME Global Business?a new, monthly section of TIME Asia. Drawing on our network of reporters around the world (Let it Rain! was reported in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Menlo Park, California), TIME Global Business, which was launched in our U.S. edition in 2001, will introduce you each month to the companies and the people who are reshaping the global economy. In addition to our story on China's rainmakers, this month's section includes a look at Emirates Airlines, the Dubai-based carrier that has grown into the world's fifth most profitable...
...Playing with Fire Sister Dorothy Stang, who was murdered in Brazil [MILESTONES, Feb. 28], had received death threats from opponents of her campaign to save the Amazon rain forest. Stang had spent decades fighting to prevent the logging and burning of this rich resource. TIME described the disastrous effects of torching the Amazon in its Sept. 18, 1989, cover story...
...skies over western Brazil will soon be dark both day and night. Dark from the smoke of thousands of fires, as farmers and cattle ranchers engage in their annual rite of destruction: clearing land for crops and livestock by burning the rain forests of the Amazon ... [Their total ruination] would be an incalculable catastrophe for the entire planet. Moist tropical forests are distinguished by their canopies of interlocking leaves and branches that shelter creatures below from sun and wind, and by their incredible variety of animal and plant life. IF THE FORESTS VANISH, SO WILL MORE THAN 1 MILLION SPECIES...