Coming from 'Time' Tomorrow: 10 Ideas That Are (Allegedly) Changing the World

By: E&P Staff In this week?s cover story, coming tomorrow , TIME, for the second year, explores 10 ideas that are ""changing the world"" in a variety of fields. Managing Editor Richard Stengel writes that this year they concentrate on ""new ways that people and thinkers are reckoning with this new economy."" He adds that ""renewal"" is ""not false hope or irrational optimism but the power of ideas and innovation to transform the world and us.?

Here's how the magazine in a release describes the magnificent ten.
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1. Jobs Are the New Assets: Barbara Kiviat on how jobs?long believed to be a near-guarantee?are the new, real assets in this economy

2. Recycling the Suburbs: Bryan Walsh on how suburbs are recycling vacant big-box stores and malls, creating a new kind of community; Walsh profiles four towns, from Minnesota to Massachusetts, that have transformed old KMarts and shopping malls into museums and community spaces

3. The New Calvinism: David Van Biema on Calvinism as a new destination religion for conservative Christians

4. Reinstating the Interstate: Richard Lacayo on using existing infrastructure?such as the U.S. interstate highway system?as a guideline for more transportation and public works projects, like light rail systems and new electrical grids

5. Amortality: Catherine Mayer on ?amortality,? a phrase she coined to represent people?from Simon Cowell to Madonna?who ?live in the same way, at the same pitchfrom late teens right up until death?

6. Africa, Business Destination: Alex Perry on how Africa, long seen as a continent of ?war and famine,? is becoming a new business destination for corporations and entrepreneurs seeking to expand and grow their businesses

7. The Rent-a-Country: Krista Mahr on land- or nutrient-poor countries renting other countries? land to grow crops

8. Biobanks: Alice Park on biobanks, which serve as biological safe houses for tissue samples, tumor cells, DNA and blood to be used for research into new treatments for diseases

9. Survival Stores: Sean Gregory on ?survivor stores??stores that, during these bleak economic times, offer consumers quality, discounted items while helping them cope with their lives and the stresses of the economic downturn

10. Ecological Intelligence: Bryan Walsh on ecological intelligence as a way to measure a certain kind of production?s or activity?s impact on the environment and local populations