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Indeed, though eliminating deficits might seem wise, it could actually be fatal to future prosperity. China is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure, while America can hardly repair its bridges. The U.S. has to invest and spend to build a future, to help re-create a workforce, and for now debt is a means to that end - provided Washington shows it can effectively channel that money. (See the best business deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Too Much Worry About the Debt? | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...Capitals from Pretoria to Washington are constantly urging more from their European allies. As U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip H. Gordon said to the House Foreign Affairs Committee after the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty last year: "We hope E.U. member states will invest the post-Lisbon institutions with the authority and capacity to make concrete contributions to the pressing global challenges we face together." In Africa, India, Latin America, leaders would fall over themselves to engage more closely with a power that's neither the U.S. nor China - both nations that can come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Europe | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...economic benefits the mangroves provide include: collected wood and other forest products; cultivation for off-shore fisheries; and coastal protection against storms, a total of $12,392 per hectare over the course of nine years. If the developer were accountable for the mangrove depletion, would you still want to invest in that shrimp farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should We Put A Dollar Value On Nature? | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

...Johns Hopkins in 2007 found that “Even when pre-existing differences between KIPP and comparison students are controlled in statistical analyses, KIPP students generally outperformed comparison school students on achievement measures.” KIPP schools and other similar institutions are largely successful because they invest in developing the identity of their students...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani | Title: Identity and Incentives | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

Create more jobs and bring developers back who will invest in the city. But particularly the jobs. A lot of people have left Detroit to seek employment. They just can't find it here. These are people who love Detroit, and it has to be pretty bad for them to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Aretha Franklin | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

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