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...staff members constantly roam the globe, visiting countries and meeting with finance ministers and central-bank governors. "This is not ivory-tower analysis," says Shailendra Anjaria, director of the external-relations department at the IMF. "This is get-your-feet-wet, on-the-scene inspection." Because the IMF releases its funds in periodic amounts, it has a lever to keep countries in line. Says Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers: "It's very important that we put out fires without giving people an incentive to leave matches around the next time...
Digging Out. No one knows for sure who ordered Borobudur to be built. Inscriptions on stones point to the Shailendra dynasty, which ruled Java in the 8th and 9th centuries. But there is little doubt that it required armies of laborers to lug its huge volcanic stones into place from nearby mountain slopes, and another army of artisans to carve out some three miles of bas-reliefs. What caused the massive temple to be abandoned is equally obscure, although evidence suggests it was caused by the volcanoes that form the spine of Java. For centuries, it lay buried under jungle...
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