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Weijian Shan, a managing partner of U.S. private-equity fund Newbridge Capital, learned some unexpected lessons about business in China's Gobi Desert. During the Cultural Revolution, Shan, a Beijing native, was banished there for six years. By day, he sweated under the blistering sun, tilling the soil and herding cattle--or healing villagers as one of Mao's famous "barefoot doctors." At night, he listened to Voice of America on a small radio, studied an English dictionary and hoped for something better. "When you have a job in the Gobi with absolutely no hope and no future, you learn...
...general, I think most people would contend this state of affairs is just fine with them. After all, purely by virtue of being born on American soil we’re all bound by the U.S. Code, a body of rules and regulations so long and complicated it makes software licenses look like kindergarten reading primers. You can go to jail for defacing a penny—how much worse can a company do in their fine print than that...
...another year. After that, the remains are reinterred in shallower or mass graves to open space for other burials. Bodies are taking longer to break down, a result, says Katrivanou, of "the food and medicine that the average person now consumes, plus the dampness and poor quality of the soil in certain cemeteries." The problem has many Greeks considering cremation, which is illegal in Greece, the only European country to ban the practice. The powerful Orthodox Church's opposition - it argues that cremation is an insult to the deceased - felled two recent attempts to legalize the practice. The current government...
...WEEKS AFTER intelligence officials confirmed that Osama bin Laden had sent a message to Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, urging him to plan attacks on U.S. soil, details are emerging from one of al-Zarqawi's lieutenants about what the man behind many of the terrorist attacks in Iraq could have in mind. Intelligence officials tell TIME that interrogation of a member of al-Zarqawi's organization, who was taken into U.S. custody last year and has been described as a top aide, indicates that al-Zarqawi has given ample consideration to assaults on the American homeland. According...
...farmers at the meeting reported using fertilizer at present. Around 25% are using improved fallows with nitrogen-fixing trees, a scientific farming approach developed and introduced into Sauri by the World Agroforestry Center. With this novel technique, villagers grow trees that naturally return nitrogen to the soil by converting it from the atmosphere, thus dramatically improving yields. The new method could be used throughout the village if more money were available for planting the trees alongside their maize crops...