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...Greenland ice cap, some hundreds of kilometers from anything - was less fun. Our ride was a Hercules C-130 cargo plane, which also delivered provisions to the camp, as air travel is about the only way to get on and off the ice cap. It was scheduled to depart Kangerlussuaq at about 6 a.m., which required our group to be out of the hotel by 4:30 in the morning. Getting up at 3:45 a.m., I experienced something entirely new after seven years of international reporting: yo-yo jet lag. Two days ago, I flew six time zones ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madcap Ice-Cap Fun in Greenland | 8/3/2008 | See Source »

...Obama will depart Jerusalem before dawn on Thursday to fly to Berlin, where he will meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Federal Chancellery and with Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Foreign Ministry. Berlin is also where the only major public event of the trip is scheduled: a speech before what are expected to be tens of thousands at the Victory Tower in the Tiergarten. Campaign officials have been sensitive about the characterization of that event, insisting that it is a substantive foreign policy address, though given German enthusiasm for Obama, the atmosphere is expected to look more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Trip Schedule Detailed | 7/22/2008 | See Source »

...laid off when mainland Hawaii, once the biggest sugar producer in the chain of islands, stopped growing cane. High production and transportation costs, as well as compliance with the state's strict environmental standards, had proved too costly, prompting the island's two sugar companies to depart. No industry replaced those jobs, and "it's been years trying to recover" from the loss, says Roney, now director of economics and policy analysis for the American Sugar Alliance. "I think this will be a very difficult adjustment for the workers in the town of Clewiston," he adds. "Agriculture really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Sugar for a Town's Bitter Pill | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

...pressure to turn a profit often forces microfinanciers to change their business models in ways that depart from the industry's original purposes. As Al Amana, Morocco's largest outfit, has shifted from grants to commercial funding, its average loan size has roughly tripled; smaller loans to the most desperate borrowers are costlier to service. One consequence of commercialization is that a lower percentage of loans go to women because they tend to take out smaller sums, according to a recent study by Women's World Banking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Trouble In Small Loans | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

Axel Brugger, who will graduate from a mid-career master’s program today, said the speech reminded him of the words on the gates of Harvard Yard which read “Enter to grow in wisdom” and on the inside “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Liberian President Counsels Harvard Kennedy School Grads | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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