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If you want to find Peter Vitousek in his lab, the first thing you have to do is go to Hawaii. After that, it gets tricky, because Vitousek's lab isn't in the state--it is the state. The Stanford University ecologist has devoted his career to studying the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecology: Ecosystems Analyst | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

So it is that Yi Susen, an agent for Chinese shipping company COSCO, has doggedly set up shop. "The Americans and Europeans control the big markets," he says, "but we can build our fortunes in Africa." Recently, Yi traveled to the island of Madagascar for a delicate dEmarche: figuring out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ends of the Admiral's Universe | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

Domestically, his position is very tricky. I attended the funeral in Nablus earlier this week, and the images I saw - large numbers of gunmen, militiamen riding around in trucks and so on had more than a whiff of Lebanon in the 1970s. And that's a serious problem for Arafat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Palestinians Are Rounding Up 'Collaborators' | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

Directors like Feng are the future of Chinese cinema, and their business is a tricky one. Obscure art-house films were fine back in the day when the directors were coddled with generous government subsidies. But in today's China, filmmakers must scramble for financing. To make matters worse, rampant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping It Reel | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

The trouble is, nobody knows who will rule China in 2008. By then the Communist Party will have undergone a tricky succession; its previous two changes came amid purges and massive unrest. Olympic scrutiny intensified upheaval in Mexico in 1968 and South Korea in 1988. Awarding China the rings now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing's Final Sprint | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

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