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...needs to act soon. The year 2010 marks the nation's bicentennial, and many fear that if Mexico doesn't hit the road to real development--especially a higher-wage economy--during Calderón's presidency, the country may face yet another century of Third World malaise. "If he wants to be a relevant President, he has to transform Mexico," says Luis de la Calle, a former trade undersecretary and prominent business consultant...
...been five years since Norah Jones eased her way into the world's ears with the 8 million-selling, eight-Grammy-winning album Come Away with Me. Since then, she has toured relentlessly and defied those who thought her initial success was an anomaly by continuing to softly and sweetly dominate the charts. Jones spoke with TIME's Josh Tyrangiel about her third No. 1 album, Not Too Late, her coming film debut and, of course, American Idol...
Every technologist, says Alvelda, wonders what impact he will have on the world. "You start to realize that opportunity to leverage the economics of the First World to build a business and use it to change life in the Second and Third World," he says. "How many people have a chance to do that?" At least 219, and counting...
...China. The original fossil fuel is the source of explosive economic growth in China, just as it was in Britain at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and in the U.S. later. China is the world's biggest consumer of coal, its factories and homes using nearly a third of total world production. Much of that coal is dug in tens of thousands of mines scattered across the windblasted ocher hills northeast of Beijing. It is here--more than in the textile factories of the south where Western activists complain of sweatshop conditions--that Chinese pay in blood for their...
...circumstances and personality, they all share the common thread of facing some sort of personal distress. Eisenberg tells each story from multiple perspectives to capture this distress, switching seamlessly from third person narrative to interior monologue. These transitions are initially confusing, but as the story continues, the reader learns to recognize each character’s voice and perspective and becomes absorbed in his or her world. The title of the collection comes from the first short story, which centers on Lucien, a widowed New Yorker, and Nathaniel, the nephew of his late wife, Charlie. Though the two live...