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...London. Perhaps the Los Angeles model of rich settlers and the Las Vegas model of transient spenders have inspired Singapore more than the three big world cities Lee mentioned. I hope that museums, creative ambiance and Old World charm are somewhere on the agenda. Nevertheless the challenge is huge, especially considering the ambitious timelines. Bala Shankar, Singapore
...African households have access to electricity. That leaves plenty of opportunity for businesses to profit as the continent attempts to catch up. In recent years, for example, the number of mobile-phone subscribers in Africa has soared by over 50% a year. But Africa's dubious reputation is a huge obstacle to the development it needs. After all, who wants to invest in a place where they suspect the game is rigged...
...would be very irritating if it never happened to her, if people never thought that she was me. But she told me a story of going into this baby store in Los Angeles when she was pregnant with her last child. They gave her all this stuff at a huge discount, and at the end, they whispered, "We loved you in Fatal Attraction...
Bureaucracy, corruption and lack of a free press are huge obstacles to a similar change in China, but there are some encouraging signs. In 2004 the deaths of 13 babies who were fed adulterated milk powder touched off a national furor. The state-run broadcaster CCTV airs a popular weekly program on food-safety scandals. China's leaders, says Zweig, "know that Chinese people have this sense that they deserve better." The World's Factory After a series of product recalls, from pet food to tires, American regulators are paying more attention to the goods exported to the U.S. from...
...world's entire crop of coca leaves, from which the white powder of cocaine is refined. And Europe's sophisticated airport security systems and coastal patrols have made it tough to ship massive volumes of cocaine undetected. That means the cartels need transit points where they can store the huge amounts of the drug that they have moved across the Atlantic. It can then be divided among hundreds of smugglers who can individually sneak it into Europe - and who are desperate enough to take the risk...