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...Some developing countries welcome a new model of capitalism. Cambodia, for example, has played the game of global trade; it signed a deal with the U.S. governing its garment exports, a big part of its economy. Now some Cambodian leaders think they should look elsewhere. "Why wouldn't we copy what China did?" one official in Phnom Penh said to me. "We had years of what the U.S. told us to do, and got this" (he pointed at beggars crawling outside a five-star hotel). "Now we go to China and all we see is how far ahead...
...just on fire here," says Gary Bhojwani, CEO of Allianz Life Insurance in Minneapolis, which sells annuities--insurance products that trade off risk and the potentially higher returns that stocks or bonds offer in exchange for a guaranteed payback. (Most annuities are guaranteed by state insurance regulators.) Investors who wouldn't know an annuity from a pineapple are asking one question: Is my money safe...
...THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO CAMPAIGN ANYMORE...
...election-board workers that in-person early voters come in two varieties: the superinformed and the people Obama supporters pick up off the streets and throw into a van. You can tell the difference mainly by smell. The secretary who sits by the front door told me that I wouldn't see many old people, since they like to vote on Election Day so they can see their friends, get breakfast afterward and make a day of it. This made me think that we should hold elections for old people monthly, letting them vote on things we don't want...
...whomever you want. For one night in Paris, you're not a corporate lawyer - you're a concert pianist turned milliner. Pick says, "It reduces the stuff that might be important back in your real world, like your socioeconomic status. You're more likely meet people you wouldn't normally talk to." The only baggage you bring is the kind that's holding your clothes...