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Investors' concerns about the candidate's economic maturity and ability to rein in Brazil's tendency to over-borrow and overspend appear to ignore the fact that the country's erratic economic performance over the last few years has occurred on the watch of certified free-marketeers. Ideological suspicion rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Socialist's Plan to Save Brazilian capitalism | 10/4/2002 | See Source »

The question is: Which government? In Gardez, the man officially in charge of the province of Paktia?Raz Mohammad Delili?is a poised Afghan with a law degree and a formal appointment by the government of President Hamid Karzai. But a few kilometers outside the provincial capital, there's another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Your Friend's Enemy Be Your Friend? | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

TORNADO WINDS In rare cases, erratic winds within a wildfire create powerful minitornadoes that can shoot spirals of flame into the air and twist trees apart at their trunks

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Science of Wildfires | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

They were both fearless spellers. Clark took "Looner" observations, ate slices of "Water millions," tracked "bearfooted Indians" and was proud to serve the "Untied States." Clark's spelling is more famously imaginative--he found 27 different ways to spell the word Sioux. (In fairness, even the best-educated Americans displayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leading Men | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

One of the slowest-reproducing land mammals of North America, grizzlies generally don't breed until their sixth year of life, and then the cubs--usually one or two, but occasionally three-- remain with their mother for nearly three years, learning the lay of the land--where to find food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grizzly's Last Stand | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

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