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...health-care systems, power networks and water resources. In the old industrial countries, infrastructure is aging. In the developing world, the infrastructure needed to sustain a modern economy often doesn't exist. A study by Booz Allen Hamilton concludes that from now until 2030, the world will spend $41 trillion just to maintain infrastructure at current levels. Kleinfeld, 49, the CEO of Siemens, which makes everything from power plants and water systems to CT scanners and dishwashers, was determined to be the go-to guy to take care of the planet's fix-it list...
...Givaudan are thriving. The global market for flavored packaged foods tops $1 trillion, and consumers spend hundreds of billions on scented cleaning and hygiene products. In the flavor-and-fragrance industry, the toughest battles are fought not behind the perfume counter but on grocery-store shelves. When whipping up a product meant to hook billions of taste buds and olfactory receptors, the biggest consumer-product corporations in the world don't gamble on hunches. That's where the million-dollar noses come...
...France and one of the planet's co-discoverers. Dmitri Sasselov of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, went further, enthusing to The New York Times, "It's 20 light-years [away]. We can go there." (Sasselov did not make it clear just how we'd make that 120 trillion mile trip when it still takes us eight months to cover the 35 million miles to Mars...
...owed $2.7 trillion more to the rest of the world than the rest of the world owed to the U.S. (the 2006 numbers won't be out until summer; they'll be even worse). That's a record, and a dramatic increase since 1999, when the number was $766 billion. Consumer debt has exploded as well: in 2006, U.S. households owed $12.8 trillion in mortgage and consumer loans--135% of disposable income. At first glance, the government picture actually looks comparatively good--federal debt, expressed as a share of the economy, is down from a peak...
...Numbers RETIREMENT 430 million Projected number of people in China who will be past retirement age by 2050-roughly a third of the country's population $1.5 trillion Pension money already owed to millions of Chinese workers laid off by the state in the last decade...