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...people were wiped out in seconds by the atomic blast. I believe the modernization occurred because the U.S. simply did not comprehend the extent of destruction the atom bomb would cause and thus set about rebuilding the city to ease the pain and guilt Americans felt. Tungsan Yu Colombo, Sri Lanka Reforming Islam Irshad Manji's essay "When Denial Can Kill" argued that Islam might be motivating suicide bombers [July 25]. She is right. It is not enough for Muslims to hide behind platitudes like "Islam means peace" and to say the radical fringe of Islam is exploiting the religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyewitnesses to Hiroshima | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...export-fueled economy. Officials for Chinese companies that compete almost entirely on price, such as those in the toys and textiles industries, say even this 2.1% increase in the yuan's value will hurt sales to cost-conscious U.S. retailing giants such as Wal-Mart and Target. Yu Zhihua, export manager for the Hangzhou Silk and Garment Import Export Corp. in Hangzhou, says her profit margins are so thin already that she can't afford to lower prices to offset the 2.1% difference in currency values. "We expect contracts that would have gone to us will switch to Bangladesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yuan Effect | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

...know if donated food really goes to the poor and needy. How can one expect to resolve a crisis without being certain of the facts? We should decide to provide aid only if we know for certain the hungry will receive the food. Jennifer Bo-yu Chen Bangkok

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/18/2005 | See Source »

...known of people who were rejected student visas and can’t come to study, even though they were accepted,” said Alvin Y. Yu ’08, who is from Hong Kong but attended high school...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: U.S. Loosens Visa Protocol | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

Will that musty and elegiac sense of innocence pass away when Ne Win does? Probably not. In 1981 the general handed over the presidency, and nominal leadership of the country, to a like-minded sexagenarian, General San Yu; last August, at the Fifth Party Congress, the 18-man Central Executive Committee all but enshrined San Yu as Ne Win's heir apparent by creating the new position of deputy party chairman for him. That suggests much of the same. Moreover, adds a foreign diplomat, "Nobody has made a decision in this country for so long except Ne Win that nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma: Locking Out the 20th Century | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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