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...been willing to put up with an authoritarian government so long as it generated jobs and opportunities. Now, with the economy slowing, growth needs to be maintained, goes conventional wisdom, at a minimum of about 8% - in part to forestall the labor unrest that Beijing fears could spread and turn into protests against the ruling Communist Party. Despite its domestic agenda, the stimulus package has been warmly welcomed overseas, too. The day after it was revealed, share prices from Hong Kong to London surged. And by again taking action along with the rest of the world (Beijing had previously...
...final line of Kinsley's essay was telling. He implied that unless we spread the wealth around, we'll turn into a Colombia or Mexico, where people "live behind locked gates and hire guards to protect their family from kidnapping." Is Kinsley suggesting that to ensure their own safety the better-off should, via the government, pay protection money to the less well off? This would be playing with public money a similar game to the one rich people in banana republics play with their personal money. Mark A. Mendlovitz, Los Angeles...
...exuberant celebration of paint volcanoes, Twinkie force-feeding, amplified Cap'N Crunch--chomping and Jell-O-encased heads. It's so universally silly that Blue Man Groups currently thrive in eight cities, from Las Vegas to Tokyo to Basel, Switzerland. But like many other enterprises that sound funny and turn out to be incredibly earnest (recent Jim Carrey movies spring to mind), the Blue School is a very serious business...
Farmers like Liu sell to small-scale companies--often family-run businesses--that process the intestines into crude heparin, which in turn becomes the key ingredient for the heparin that Baxter and other major drug firms sell worldwide. SPL's CEO, David Strunce, told Congress last spring that the raw material comes from "government-regulated slaughterhouses." But that regulation, farmers in Jiangsu told TIME, is haphazard at best. And if the slaughterhouses are haphazardly regulated, the small heparin-processing businesses--hundreds of them across the country--are virtually unregulated. "We haven't ever had the government come and inspect...
When history is being made, people turn to TIME. We not only mark history; sometimes we are part of it. With the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United States, people across America and around the world scooped up copies of our commemorative election issue to observe the occasion. It has already become a collector's item. When I was walking home from the office a few nights after the election, I passed a newsstand in New York City that had just one copy of the issue left for sale--marked...