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...other side of the Pacific, China may have the luxury of having an economy that continues to expand, even if it is at a much slower rate than at any time over the last decade. China can bankroll privatizations without worrying that the wealthy residents of the country will fight it in the legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trading Places: China and the U.S. | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...limit time online, screen e-mail, unplug the webcam. But kids are more nimble than wise; they will find a work-around. Teachers know that students can text under the desk without glancing down, their phones set with a ringtone pitched too high for adults to hear. We are fighting on their turf. They are up in the trees and underground and in caves while we march around in our bright red uniforms trying to defend their dignity and virtue. Not a fair fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Thoughts About Kids and Cell Phones | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...reconvened with some new personnel, and by the '60s were important factors in the country's social and foreign policy. By 1985, when the main story takes place, Eddie is one of the last original Minutemen/Watchmen still in action - and after being on the losing end of a ferocious fight in his high-rise apartment, splat, he's comedy history. (See pictures of animated movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen Review: (A Few) Moments of Greatness | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...generation to the next. In developed nations, the old will no longer have the means to retire, the middle aged will face joblessness and an obliteration of the standard of living to which they believed they were entitled since they were very young, and the young may have to fight for a small number of jobs most of which pay little more than a fraction of what their parents made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Financial Crisis: The World At War | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...Final Exit arrestees appear, like Kevorkian, to be prepared and planning for a fight. The group has a web site explaining its cause and its leader Jerry Dincin has told TIME he considers Final Exit members "angels of mercy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assisted Suicide | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

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