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...formula where everyone is reasonably satisfied. It remains a nation deeply divided along class, regional and religious lines. The man who most successfully exploited these divisions was Thaksin, the patron of the PPP now living in self-imposed exile in England. Using his leverage as one of Thailand's richest men, he successfully wooed lawmakers from several other political parties to join his Thai Rak Thai party in the late 1990s. Thai Rak Thai (TRT) dominated Thailand's political landscape for five years by appealing to the nation's rural poor who form the majority of voters, particularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Victory for Thailand's Ex-Leader | 12/24/2007 | See Source »

...before the measure becomes law, expect intense lobbying of E.U. ministers from one of Europe's most powerful industries - and its richest economy, Germany - as they try to put the brakes on the potential impact of the emission penalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resistance to Europe's Emissions Plan | 12/19/2007 | See Source »

Once the province of those with long hair and short credit lines, today clean tech is a prime target for the smartest - and richest - investors in the world. Green investment by American venture-capital firms reached $2.6 billion in the first three quarters of 2007, the highest level ever recorded and nearly 50% more than the total for the whole of 2006. The European clean-energy sector is already producing winning companies in countries like Germany and Spain, and in rapidly growing China nearly 20% of all venture capital was channeled into clean companies in 2006 - double the percentage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling on Green | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

...true. Creating the advances needed to rapidly decarbonize our energy supply - at a price the developing world can afford - will require the investment of countless billions of dollars for research and development. At the moment, we're not even close to victory, but many of the best, smartest and richest investors around have now joined the battle. At the end of a presentation on Kleiner Perkins' green-tech initiative at this year's TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference, an invitation-only gathering of global thinkers, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr silenced his audience when he briefly broke down, pondering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling on Green | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

...modern neurogenetics and discoveries in the treatment of Alzheimer's and other diseases. Inspired by the wildly different personalities of his two daughters, he found that fruit flies slept and acted differently when injected with the genes of other fruit flies--research that won him the U.S.'s richest science award, the Albany Medical Center Prize. Benzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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