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Piles of red brick clutter the roadsides. Stacks of concrete drainage pipes fill parking lots. Newly resurfaced roads snake past rows of temporary housing, while stores do a brisk trade in paint and window frames. Like countless places in China, this corner of central Sichuan province is undergoing a building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rising from The Rubble | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

The documents - whose authenticity is not in dispute - include e-mails written by Canary, long after her recusal, offering legal advice to subordinates handling the case. At the time Canary wrote the e-mails, her husband - Alabama GOP operative William J. Canary - was a vocal booster of the state's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Allegations of Misconduct in Alabama Governor Case | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

When the ax isn't enough, out comes the scalpel. Having laid off tens of thousands of workers, corporations and small businesses are looking for new fat to trim. In September, 2,269 companies had mass layoffs, according to Sirota Survey Intelligence, each affecting 50 or more employees. But many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Company Benefits Come Under the Knife | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

Many parents go abroad hoping to finance a better future for their children. The country's public schools are overcrowded and underfunded, and that's not likely to change anytime soon. The Philippines' young population - over 35% of the nation is 14 or younger - is on track to double between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Motherless Generation | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

They are "the unwanted, doing the unforgivable, for the ungrateful," according to a tattoo adorning an American private security contractor--one of the tens of thousands of mercenaries who work alongside the understaffed U.S. military in the shadows of the Iraq war. Fainaru, a Washington Post reporter and 2008 Pulitzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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