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...does, although it's not a body that I would rest our foreign policy on. The U.N. [however] can be a useful instrument of American foreign policy...
...takes 152 days to start a business there, according to a KPMG consulting study, compared with 32 in Argentina--there are more pressing issues of an overvalued real, high taxation, weak infrastructure and especially pension reform. Incredibly, Brazilian pensioners receive more money as a share of GDP than the rest of the population of 188 million, sucking investment from badly neglected areas like education. Says Renato Fragelli, director of the Graduate School of Economics at the Fundação Getulio Vargas think tank in Rio de Janeiro: "The time to fix a roof is when the sun shines--but when...
...hope? Bad Africa can forge exceptional businessmen. Angola's prospects, in other words, rest on men like Cassalongo. "I'm going to make it," he says. "I take on challenges. And I work." And perhaps, so will Africa, good...
...first realized I was reliving the days of my daughters' infancy--the nights of light sleep, alert to every stirring--when I began plugging my gizmo into the outlet next to the bed, so it could rest beside me, generally peaceful but pinging quietly every so often when an e-mail came in. And if I was between REM cycles and heard it, I had the choice: Do I ignore it, make it sleep through the night? Or do I find out what it's trying to tell me? When my husband and I spent a weekend away, unplugged, unpinged...
Despite the idyllic surroundings, Happy Valley nearly closed four years ago. It faces the same challenges confronting the rest of the Indian tea industry--intense global competition, fickle consumer tastes and labor disputes that have occasionally turned violent. India produces more tea than any other country in the world except China, but after years of neglecting to invest in marketing or technology, India has seen its exports fall behind those of Sri Lanka, Kenya and China in the $7.5 billion global tea market...