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...China's extraordinary growth, and have made bets on the future that assume steady, rapid and sustained growth there. Forget about the obvious beneficiaries of the China boom, such as producers of oil and commodities. China's growth is a huge boost to American companies like Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar Tractor and chip-maker Texas Instruments. The beneficiaries also include service companies ranging from law firms and investment banks to environmental consultants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China's Economy Overheating? | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...left to New Jersey landscaper Marc Torsilieri. For 25 years Torsilieri and his team felled the Norway spruce--usually 80 ft.--plus--and prepared it for moving by hinging lower limbs and scurrying to its upper extremities to tie up delicate branches. After hauling the evergreen in a giant tractor-trailer, with a police escort, he helped decorate it with 30,000 lights. He was 48 and had pancreatic cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 2, 2007 | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...that's precisely the experience members of this group were looking for. To get it, they had plunked down $459 each to ride a snow tractor to the summit and sleep in bunk beds for one of the two dozen or so overnight "Edu-Trips" sponsored each year by the Mount Washington Observatory, a nonprofit organization that's been running a weather station up here since 1932. (Independent hikers can ascend to the summit for free but won't be let indoors at the top unless it's a real emergency.) This weekend's theme was global climate change, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worst Weather in the World | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...sincere socialist, Filonov had too realistic a vision to be approved - or even accepted - by the Party and by his artistic peers loyal to the Party. He tried to fit in: he rechristened his Holy Family (1914) as Peasant Family. He painted and drew several masterpieces such as Tractor Workshop of the Putilov Iron Works (1932) and GOELRO (Lenin's Electrification Plan) (1930). But though their titles were unassailably in tune with the times, even an average party commissar could discern in them an inherent and uncomfortable truthfulness. Unable to get commissions, Filonov lived in poverty, occasionally working on contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Vision | 2/13/2007 | See Source »

...central India, is CEO of Britain's Vodafone. Three months ago, Indra Nooyi was named CEO of PepsiCo after serving five years as the U.S. beverage giant's CFO. Indians have credibility as managers, says Hemant Luthra, head of the Systems & Automotive Technologies division at Indian car-and-tractor manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra. This was not always so. Luthra remembers visiting Hong Kong in 1991 when India's government was close to bankruptcy. "I had $100 in my pocket and if I went into a watch shop the salesmen would instantly show me the cheapest watches just because I was Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India takes on the World | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

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