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...will be very slim. Still, the Swiss team prepares the dogs for the journey to Pariaman by dunking the dogs in some water to cool them off before they begin their hard work. For long-haired golden retrievers, border collies and other breeds, the torrid Sumatran air is far tougher to endure than the flight over from Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Arrives to Indonesia's Earthquake Zone | 10/3/2009 | See Source »

Though Berry’s Harvard degree certainly helped him get a job on Wall Street, the former gridiron standout knows that playing in the Ivy League made it tougher to make...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Heeding the Call of the NFL | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...expected to have at least two years of growth estimates for the economy; securities analysts must also work up two years of earnings estimates for the companies they follow. That's never an easy task, even for a single company, but massive stimulus spending is making the job even tougher this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Forecasting: A Foggier View Than Ever | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...world of financial derivatives by requiring the trading of them to be done through central clearing houses. Meanwhile, Trichet's group of central bankers wants banks to put up additional capital if they engage in especially risky types of financial market transactions. As the financial services industry braces for tougher oversight, it's keeping its fingers crossed. "There's a lot of wariness about all forms of financial market activities and that's perfectly understandable," says Richard Metcalfe, global head of policy at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. "There's a huge amount of political pressure to do things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Braking the Banks | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...much pressure in the past. The President has stopped pursuing the European antimissile defense system, which should please the Russians - and he has reminded the Chinese that we face a common enemy in central Asian Islamic extremism. But that doesn't guarantee either country will be willing to get tougher on the Iranians. (See pictures of Afghanistan's Kunar province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Foreign Policy Needs a Domestic Boost | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

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