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...drug dealers are not recent economics graduates, and most freshly-minted MBAs do not consider a career in dealing alongside their offers from McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs. They are made up mostly of desperately poor people—people for whom the inflated demand of pot represents a rare economic opportunity in a world where jobs are scarce and education scarcer...
...Aires presidential palace. (Isabel Peron, president from 1974 to 1976, succeeded to the office after her husband Juan died.) A veteran lawyer, legislator and stateswoman, as well as political fashion plate, Fernandez is often called The New Evita, after Argentina's most famous First Lady, Eva Peron. In a rare interview, she talked with TIME's Tim Padgett about her role in Argentina's return to the world stage after its disastrous financial crisis of 2001-02. Excerpts...
...appropriate to compare you with Hillary? We're both lawyers, and it's considered rare that professional women like us are also wives of Presidents. And don't forget, one difference is that I was a Senator before my husband became President. But I think our style of argumentation is similar in the sense that women today bring a different face to politics. We're culturally formed to be citizens of two worlds, public and private. We're wrapped up as much in what our daughters' school principal says as we are in what the newspapers are saying...
...computer that runs the Lucky Camera saves those rare, perfect images and discards the rest. And because a single 1?20-second exposure of a faint celestial object is almost invisible, the computer combines the good images electronically, ultimately producing a usable...
...achieved global renown in 1991 when he led the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid peace conference, the first ever face-to-face meeting of Israeli and Arab adversaries. Doctor turned negotiator Haidar Abdel Shafi, above, the rare secular leader respected by rival Palestinian factions, resigned in 1993 over the Oslo peace agreements with Israel, which he said failed to address the issue of Jewish settlements on disputed land...