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Percentage of the estimated 12??million cancer cases worldwide diagnosed in 2007 that were in more affluent, developed nations...
Venezuela's 26 million people have seen four straight years of near record economic growth, and they are driving up domestic oil demand: almost 500,000 new cars are expected to be sold this year. (Why not, with gas at 12?? a gal.?) But the bolívar is sharply overvalued, inflation is the highest in Latin America, and even Chávez fears that his "21st century socialists" are living like capitalist nouveaux riches, the so-called boli-bourgeoisie...
...Leningrad audience watched as officials revealed the move Kasparov had decided on before adjournment the previous evening: a knight's assault on the king. The crowd rose and cheered as they realized that the tactic almost certainly guaranteed victory. The last two games were draws, making the final score 12??-11½. Last week after the 23rd game, when Karpov's defeat had become inevitable, the two men shook hands and chatted briefly. It was the first public show of warmth between them in their two long years of battle. --By Sara C. Medina. Reported by Nancy Traver/Moscow
...debtors, Mexico and Venezuela, are continuing to make strides toward easing their credit crunches. Venezuela, which has a 16.9% inflation rate that is modest by Latin American standards, has reached a tentative accord with its banks to stretch out payments on $20.8 billion of its $35 billion debt over 12?? years. Bankers have agreed to give Mexico until 1999 to finish making payments on $28.6 billion of its $96 billion debt. Mexico gained the confidence of the bankers by reducing its inflation rate from 100% in 1982 to 59% last year...
...prison farm" in Danbury, Conn., just 20 miles from her home in Westport. Like other inmates at the facility, where hotel queen Leona Helmsley served time for tax evasion, Stewart will wear a khaki uniform and black, steel-toed shoes and work 7 1/2 hours a day for about 12?? an hour. "I'm used to all kinds of hard work," Stewart said. "I'm not afraid whatsoever...