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This week, after you've taken a deepdive into the micro details of daily life in America, make a macroeconomic leap into the world of global competition. In this issue, we present TIME's inaugural "Best Countries for Business," a special report we are producing with the World Economic Forum (WEF). "Best Countries for Business" offers a formidable combination of resources: the globe's most prestigious business organization linked with the planet's best journalists to report on the heated competition among nations for investment. Alex Perry and Zoe Eisenstein file from Africa on the disparate development of Mauritius...
...which is 41 light-years away in the constellation Cancer. The find makes that star system the most heavily populated one known other than our sun's and raises to 265 the total of extrasolar planets since astronomers began discovering them in 1995. To skywatchers, however, 55 Cancri is special, not just because of its litter of worlds but because of what it tells us about the possibility of life around it--and other stars...
...general has shown through his eight years in power that he is nothing if not tenacious. If the deal is off, so too are his gloves. Bhutto can no longer expect any special treatment from Musharraf and could find herself in the same position as other opposition politicians--in jail or in exile again. The crackdown on her Pakistan People's Party will probably intensify. Musharraf "is capable of doing anything now," says Iftikhar Gilani, a former law minister under Bhutto who also has been a member of the general's party. "He has already confronted the press, the judiciary...
...tiny roles on TV (My Wife and Kids) and in film (Pauly Shore Is Dead) but mostly liked to discomfit her male-dominated industry in gigs with all-Latina troupes such as the Hot and Spicy Mamitas and the Latin Divas of Comedy, with whom she anchored a cable special this year. She was 52 and had colon cancer...
...wealthier customers, and a lot of the people moving toward the west,” Kramer says. ‘A VIBRANT INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITY’Harvard Book Store has also given back to the community that has supported it. Through abundant author events and special promotions such as the Frequent Buyers Program and the newly created Signed First Edition Club, the book store has taken active steps in creating a literary community here in Cambridge.“Most of our events are free events,” marketing manager Heather L. Gain says...