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Traditionally, canister-style vacuum cleaners have been, well, a drag. But the Airider is designed to push itself 1/8 in. off the floor. You'll barely notice it floating behind you while you're sucking cat hair out of your carpet. $399; May; airider.co.uk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home: The Future Of Homemaking | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...times," he says?during the Cultural Revolution (when he was sent to farm peanuts in the countryside), when he went to the U.S. to study and when he returned to China and realized that all his American M.B.A. lessons couldn't be applied back home. "There's a belief vacuum in China, which means that many people only believe in money," Huang says. "That means there are con artists everywhere. They will cook their books. They will lie during presentations." As China's experiment in what he calls "raw capitalism" carries on, the re-education of Comrade Huang no doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowing Capitalist Seeds | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...escalation of conflict virtually inevitable. Similarly, anyone who has read Lenin’s political writings—most noticeably his schizophrenic diatribe “How to Organize Competition”—can see that the Communist terror in Russia did not come out of a vacuum; the leaders of the revolution did exactly what they said they were going to do, which was to “cleanse Russia of all sorts of dangerous insects...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis, | Title: Keeping an Open Mind | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...times," he says--during the Cultural Revolution (when he was sent to farm peanuts in the countryside), when he went to the U.S. to study and when he returned to China and realized that all his American M.B.A. lessons couldn't be applied back home. "There's a belief vacuum in China, which means that many people only believe in money," Huang says. "That means there are con artists everywhere. They will cook their books. They will lie during presentations." As China's experiment in what he calls "raw capitalism" carries on, the re-education of Comrade Huang no doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowing Capitalist Seeds | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...local oligarchs," a Middle Eastern diplomat told me. "There may be, as President Bush believes, a general desire for freedom, but the number of people who really understand democracy and free-market economics is very small, and it's groups like Hizballah that are ready to move into the vacuum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Who Has a Shot at the Nobel Peace Prize | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

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