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...being sunk into safe-bet, low-yield U.S. Treasury bonds--or the arms bazaar. Some recent deals--Dubai's brief holdings in DaimlerChrysler and Madame Tussauds, for example--have been opportunistic. But Dubai's bid for NASDAQ is part of a vision for positioning the city-state as a world-class business center. "Dubai has managed in the last 30 years to become the commercial hub of the region," says Soud Balawi, head of Dubai Investment Group. "We want Dubai to become the financial hub as well...
...India is considering an approach similar to China's to help improve its woefully inconsistent higher education, which includes a handful of world-class government-run management and technology schools as well as hundreds of much more mediocre institutions. A transfusion of government spending, coupled with foreign investment--financial and academic--will, the government hopes, boost the number of Indians who attend university from 7% to closer to 15% and provide well-trained workers for India's booming economy, which, perversely in a country of 1.1 billion people, is struggling with a growing skills shortage...
...goal cushion and knock the Ivy leaders out of first place.Mann’s save in a tight spot and her performance on the day earned glowing praise from her coach. “It’s just a guess, but she’s a world-class player,” Leone said. “She’s the best player in the league that anyone’s seen in quite a long time.”The victory puts the Crimson in a tie for third place in the league with Yale, which...
...aircraft is the fruit of China's first solo commercial aircraft project in nearly 40 years, and it promises to be one of the world's most technologically sophisticated when it takes off for the first time in March 2008. Onboard are the most advanced avionics, propulsion and malfunction-monitoring systems available. With room for 90 passengers (up to 105 in a stretch version), "the ARJ21 will prove China is striving to become a world-class aircraft manufacturer," says Wang Yawei, vice president of the ARJ21's financier, the state-run China Aviation Industry Corporation I (AVIC...
...showcase the latest work of one world-class photojournalist, we remember another who is no longer with us. Alexandra Boulat, who passed away in Paris on Oct. 5, was frequently on assignment for Time. As fearless as she was talented, she covered wars in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories, where she suffered a brain aneurysm last June. She had a gift for capturing the condition of societies, especially women, caught in bloody conflicts. I particularly recommend her multimedia piece on Palestinian rappers and her powerful first-person account of a riveting photo-essay from Gaza--both...