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...amid all of the gloom, many Asians can't help but remain optimistic. After decades of rapid growth, it seems impossible to some that new jobs and rising incomes will somehow suddenly vanish. Gao Yajun, a 26-year-old Beijing photographer, sees opportunity in crisis. "My hunch is that it might turn out to be a golden opportunity to make money," he says. That spirit may be Asia's best protection against America's problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia's Good Times at Risk | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...them tears down the previous week’s layers of posters, the first dance begins. Seven or eight eager posterers mob the most coveted spaces—reader boards near Thayer and Harvard Hall. Soon more crowd around, getting more anxious as the virgin brown surfaces vanish from sight. Taken from afar, the untrained observer sees only an orgy of arms and tape, flailing and indistinguishable...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Postering in the Ethnographic Gaze | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

...clearly, the financial sector in the U.S. is facing a huge crisis. When you have two big companies like Bear Stearns and Lehman vanish, and Merrill Lynch being absorbed, that tells you a lot about the difficulties being faced by the financial sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Billionaire to Wall Street: See You Later | 9/16/2008 | See Source »

...talked, and that it was in his children's best interest that he have "no problems" with Venezuela. At one cloak-and-dagger gathering, Canchica, using the name "Christian," allegedly told Antonini that PDVSA (the Venezuelan oil corporation) and the Chavez government would make his legal problems vanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chávez and the Cash-Filled Suitcase | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

Funding and potential fighters appear to be searching for newer ways into Afghanistan - particularly via Turkey "where they suddenly vanish," says the counter-terror official, who was recently involved in busting an Afghan-supporting finance network spanning France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Uzbekistan - whose radical groups also receive funding collected in Europe - may also be becoming a new transit point for Afghan-bound radicals. And with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf stepping down, "there's real concern the already wild and lawless border region will become a virtual Taliban-al Qaeda colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's Renewed Jihadi Allure | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

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