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...slump faced by U.S. and European automakers has encouraged Chinese companies - buoyed by China's ranking as the world's largest car market in the first quarter of 2009 - to hunt for buyout candidates overseas. "It's definitely a good time to buy Hummer," says Liu Chang of Sinomind Management Consulting in Beijing. "GM wouldn't sell it if it was in better shape." But China's previous results from acquisitions of foreign automakers have been poor. In 2004, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. paid $500 million for a 49% stake in South Korea's Ssangyong Motors, which declared bankruptcy...
...paramount. Though Kim, according to intelligence reports, has resumed most of his duties, his own obvious frailty led even him, analysts believe, to begin preparing for the inevitable. Since becoming ill, as TIME revealed last month, Pyongyang has effectively been run by Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law, Chang Sung Taek, who is married to the dictator's younger sister, the sibling Kim is reportedly closest to. (The fluid, unpredictable nature of politics around the ruler can never be underestimated: in 2003, Kim, suspicious that Chang was building up a power base of his own, had him placed under...
...according to North Korea watchers in Seoul, Chang has effectively taken the youngest Kim under his wing, acting as a sort of regent to the Prince. "He is the bridge from Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un," says Baek Seung Joo, who watches North Korea at the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis...
...with other men, retired players were more likely to have high cholesterol and impaired fasting glucose despite significantly lower rates of diabetes and hypertension. Although "remaining physically active may help protect against many of the health risks of large body size in former competitive football players," said Dr. Alice Chang, lead author of the AHA study and an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, in a statement at the time the findings were released, "being a professional athlete doesn't protect you from developing heart disease later in life." (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...Staff writer Wendy H. Chang can be reached at whchang@fas.harvard.edu...