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...Building a Better Tiger Asian leaders for years have recognized the need to reduce dependence upon exports to the developed world. But as long as the engine wasn't broke, they weren't inclined to make extraordinary efforts to fix it. Now, it appears Asia's primary growth driver is, at the very least, badly bent. Meaningful reforms that diversify the sources of economic growth may be needed if the region is to avert a prolonged period of moribund economic activity...
This is the first time I've been able to do it with a full orchestra. It kept coming up over the years, and at the time, I didn't have the resources to do the full thing live. It seems like the songs are fresh now because they weren't performed very much, whereas most of my other records were done live a lot. And I don't own the original record; that's one reason. There are many, many more...
...dumped and the men they wish they had never met. There's the woman whose porn-star boyfriend dumps her for being too promiscuous, the college girl who dates a fanatical Barbie fan, the woman who overhears her date calling her fat and dozens of other guys who just weren't good enough. Davilman and Dubelman talk to TIME about what happens when the sexes don't get along. (See the latest dating fads...
...your book didn't come off as being that awful. Dubelman: They're not awful! Davilman: They're not! Dubelman: We love men! Davilman: They just weren't right for those women, that's all. I'm really glad the book didn't devolve into male-bashing. It's really about the women and the things they didn't see. Dubelman: Or saw and ignored. Davilman: Or couldn...
...soared from approximately 500,000 in 1970 to more than 6.8 million in 2000, according to Census data quoted in this pdf. In the early years, research on these kids highlighted their difficulties: the disapproval they faced from neighbors and members of their extended families; the sense that they weren't "full" members in any racial community; the insecurity and self-loathing that often resulted from feeling marginalized on all sides. That simple but harsh playground question - "What are you?" - torments many multiracial kids. Psychologists call this a "forced-choice dilemma" that compels children to claim some kind of identity...