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Giving small farmers seeds, dams and ploughs allows them to improve their lot enough to raise more children, extending the poverty base for yet more generations. India and similar countries face more agricultural crises as family land divisions become ridiculously small. The solution is large-scale, privately owned farming corporations that are legally bound to provide housing, medical, pension and educational facilities for all employees and their families. This lifts the agricultural peasantry into the middle class where they produce fewer, better educated children; it allows larger profits which results in better R&D and farming methods, better forecasting...
Germany has a lot of fine qualities, but being hip isn't usually thought to be one of them. Up-and-coming artists, especially ones from abroad, used to flock to London, Amsterdam or New York City rather than Hamburg, Munich or Cologne. As for Berlin, it hasn't been on the international cool list since Christopher Isherwood lived in the city in the early 1930s and chronicled the demise of its rambunctious culture under the Nazis. If foreigners came to visit, they were hippies, spies, U.S. Presidents or peeping tourists curious to catch a glimpse of communism from...
...jackets, pants and coats. Upscale boutiques from Hong Kong to Zurich stock her gear. In her own store in the heart of Mitte, stylized photos of sullen models look down at the rows of clothes, which next spring will include dresses made of recycled dishcloths. "There are a lot of creative labels here, so you don't stick out like a colorful chicken," Mayer says. (See a TIME Video on "A GPS Tour of the Berlin Wall...
...Milan, he and his family flew to Berlin and fell in love with it. "The kids didn't want to go back to Italy," Andorlini says. Life is very different from the pressure-cooker atmosphere he was once used to. "Here there's a community of people with a lot of free time to see one another," Andorlini says. "In Milan if you're not working at 8 p.m. you're not successful. I feel like I'm on holiday." The conversation quickly turns to comparisons. "Berlin is like Paris in the '30s," Andorlini says. "It's a place where...
...parents when he returned to America as a child. “One day, my parents did come to Shanghai to pick me up and I was like, ‘Oh...hello, strangers...’ I periodically went back home to Shanghai and moved around a lot,” recounts Zhang about his childhood...