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...complete pariah to outside investors. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased in recent years as the economy has improved. But reform is required, economists say, if Indonesia is to become more competitive regionally and globally. China in 2007 attracted seven times more FDI than Indonesia, India almost twice as much. Indonesia "has to be at par with what its neighbors are doing," says Ifzal Ali, chief economist at the Asian Development Bank in Manila, "or foreign investment won't flow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Holding Indonesia Back? | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...with fewer political scandals than normal to sully his rule. In the resource-rich territory of Aceh, S.B.Y. spearheaded a historic accord that has brought peace to a former civil-war battleground. Despite the fact that Indonesia gave birth to Jemaah Islamiah, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist movement that twice targeted tourists on the resort island of Bali, the Indonesian government has waged one of the world's most successful wars on terror, with scores of militants arrested and terrorist cells infiltrated as part of S.B.Y.'s promise to rout Islamic extremism. At the same time, government-funded moderate Muslim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: A Political Success Story | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...Brown, a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Twelve-to-14-year-old girls who start puberty earlier are more interested in sexual content in the media." Brown's studies found that adolescents whose media diet was rich in sexual content were more than twice as likely as others to have had sex by the time they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth About Teen Girls | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...Blue Devils scored twice within three minutes early in the first half to set itself on track...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Unfazed by Loss to Former Coach | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

Fucito and senior midfielder John Stamatis teamed up twice to lift the Crimson to victory over the Wolfpack...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Unfazed by Loss to Former Coach | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

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