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...Greeks who are expecting this change or the international community? Both, I think. First of all, the international community because in a sense in the European Union we have become a test case of both the euro - its survival - and how to deal with this high deficit in a time of crisis. It's not only a Greek problem. Our bad ways, if you like, or our difficulties or our wrong decisions, have exacerbated the problem of the international crisis in Greece. (Read: "Germany: Tensions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with George Papandreou | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...haired, strapping and fabulous" and an academic high achiever, but she does every drug under the sun, including her peers' parentally dispensed Adderall. The book is a stark illustration of deception, denial and parents' desperate desire to stay loved. You emerge from its last bittersweet pages ready to drug-test your Little Leaguer, if that's what it will take to keep him safe. That's extreme, obviously, but Lamott, though a fierce advocate of civil rights and social justice, wouldn't rule it out for teens who seem at risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's center-right coalition made unforeseen gains in the March 28 regional elections, taking four districts from the opposition--including Lazio, which contains Rome--for a total of six of the 13 contested regions. Berlusconi viewed the results of the election, which was considered a test of his popularity, as a mandate to move ahead with several controversial reforms, including an overhaul of the country's justice system and a constitutional change that would allow for direct election of the President, a position separate from that of the Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...that his primarily Mexican-American working-class students were oppressed by a culture of low expectations, and he began to overhaul the school's math curriculum. His young charges did so well on the 1982 advanced-placement calculus exam that suspicious officials made a dozen of them retake the test. Each and every one passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jaime Escalante | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

Eldrup says Denmark makes a good test case for the large-scale production of electric cars. For starters, the country does not have an auto industry. Second, Danes pay a 180% tax for new-car registration, while there is no such fee imposed on electric autos, an attractive incentive for consumers. "If we are successful, that gives us a lot of learning and new development in new technology and businesses in Denmark," says Eldrup. He adds, "It also gives us value in exporting." (See the top 10 news stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radical Green | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

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