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...does not like admitting it, but once in the presidency, Lula embraced Cardoso's macroeconomic orthodoxy. He then used that as a base on which to weld social programs, such as Bolsa Família, a grant scheme that has paid out more than $20 billion in aid to poor families in return for parents getting their children vaccinated and making sure they attend school. Brazil's business leaders insist record profits during the 2005-2008 boom allowed Lula to aid the poor; Lula argues his antipoverty crusade fueled the economic growth. It's a chicken-and-egg debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The One Country That Might Avoid Recession Is... | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...wind itself is only part of the reason. In Lem, workers in factories the size of aircraft hangars build the wind turbines sold by Vestas, the Danish company that has emerged as the industry's top manufacturer around the globe. The work is both gross and fine; employees weld together massive curved sheets of steel to make central shafts as tall as a 14-story building, and assemble engine housings that hold some 18,000 separate parts. Most impressive are the turbine's blades, which scoop the wind with each sweeping revolution. As smooth as an Olympic swimsuit and honed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denmark's Wind of Change | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...Hopefully, Obama’s policies to rejuvenate the economy are more useful than this, but his message should be closer to Keynes’s than to Hoover’s. Malcolm-Wiley T. Floyd ’12, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Weld Hall...

Author: By Malcolm-wiley T. Floyd | Title: DISSENT: Obama, Hoover, Maynard Keynes? | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...like to grade papers in total, ominous silence over their cappuccinos. To those of you who spend your Saturdays in the airy, mostly sweet-smelling spaces of Lamont Café or the Widener Stacks, never needing to elbow anyone more threatening than a group of Weld freshmen in order to secure yourself a spot: Don’t smirk and fold your arms complacently. This could be you sooner than you think...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Save Saturday! | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...Malcolm-Wiley T. Floyd ’12, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Weld Hall...

Author: By Malcolm-wiley T. Floyd, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: More Taste, Less Carbon | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

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