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...attempt or in China--she would have received at least a long prison sentence and could quite possibly have been executed. At 2 a.m., with no guards in sight and clutching just one small bag with a change of clothes in it, she hustled across the frozen Tumen River and into China for the second time...
...what was happening on the mainland proved irresistible. Two years ago he accepted an offer from U.S. hedge-fund manager James Rosenwald to set up shop in Shanghai, where Shu runs a China fund for Rosenwald's firm, Dalton Investments. He is also director of Dalton affiliate Grand River Investments, a private-equity firm that, among other things, invests in and manages high-end real estate in Shanghai, a city crawling with the new rich. Shu himself recently bought and has been refurbishing an elegant old house in central Shanghai. He's now 39, and, he says...
...pungent beer. "Our life depends on the lake," says Father Meseret Moges, 53, a priest who has lived in the monastery on the island for almost three decades. That sentiment is shared by the millions of people who live along the 6,695 km of the world's longest river. From its origins in Ethiopia and in the rolling green hills around Lake Victoria in central Africa, the Nile and its many tributaries loop through 10 countries across half the length of the continent. Egypt, which has viewed the Nile as something like its private possession for centuries, has long...
...directly from new power production because most of the electricity would be used in cities, not in rural areas. Environmentalists are also skeptical that the ambitious integrated scheme would ever work. "It's pie-in-the-sky stuff," says Lori Pottinger, director of the Africa program at the International Rivers Network (IRN), an environmental group based in California. "It assumes that a lot of things are going to go very well, and history shows us with big projects like these, big dams, that it won't." Exhibit A for both sides of the debate is the unbuilt Bujagali...
TIME'S stort on Ehud Olmert's victory in the Israeli elections [April 10] said it showed that Israeli voters "are apparently ready to sacrifice the ancient dream of a Greater Israel--stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River--for peace with a Palestinian state." But most Israelis already favored such a sacrifice. The concept of a Greater Israel has been embraced by only a minority. While you reported Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' regret that Olmert did not win more seats, most Israelis regret Abbas' failure to stop Hamas from winning the latest Palestinian elections. That Israel...