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...India is "simmering" with unrest at government inadequacy [Feb. 22]. India - unlike China - has grown organically, and largely by private enterprise. Hence, money and resources aren't simply accumulated by the government to parcel out as it sees fit. India's slow rise to prominence (again unlike China's state-sanctioned juggernaut) is actually pretty efficient at not radically altering the fabric of society. Neil McEwan, KENT, ENGLAND
...come close to encompassing his power) insists that all is now well with the world. "The sport's in better shape than it's ever been," he says coolly to TIME. "The negative things are all ironed out." But others have a more somber, realistic view of the state of F1. "The sport has been damaged. We were firefighting our way through last year and we still have to finish firefighting," says Martin Whitmarsh, who runs the powerhouse McLaren team. "It's time for this sport to grow up." (See the most exciting cars...
...rburgring (a new, shorter version has been used since the 1980s) is not on this year's F1 schedule. Yas Island in Abu Dhabi is. The gulf state has spent $1 billion on the new track and $39 billion on the outlandish infrastructure surrounding it, including hotels, golf courses and Ferrari World, billed as the world's largest indoor theme park. Here you can experience the g-forces of an F1 racer firsthand on a roller coaster that reaches speeds of 124m.p.h. (200 km/h). The roller coaster may be more thrilling than the race itself. New tracks like Yas Island...
Iran is the 21st century equivalent of 1930s Russia - a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The Iranians haven't stumbled upon this mystifying state coincidentally, and the enigma isn't the result of outsiders' failure to try to understand them. Rather, the Iranian government has a deliberate policy aimed at confusing the outside world about its goals and decision-making processes. "There is an intention out there to confuse," a noted Iranian professor told me in Tehran a few years ago. The rulers in Tehran think that opacity and the perception of unpredictability buy them security...
Under these circumstances, the embattled Iranian government is unable to set a new course for its foreign policy. In a state of paralysis, Iran's behavior is primarily driven by two forces: bureaucratic inertia and a willingness to take only those decisions that are deemed low-risk within Iran's internal political context. That does not include compromise with Washington and the International Atomic Energy Agency on the nuclear issue. From the Iran-Contra scandal onwards, Iran's history is ripe with examples of Iranian politicians losing their careers after trying to create an opening to the U.S. Iran...