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...General Electric and Honeywell raises important questions for this new era in world economic relations [BUSINESS, July 16]. How far-reaching is a government's right to block a company from growing or merging? In this new, globalized era, large companies that decide to make big moves that affect more than one region of the planet have to deal with two or more bodies--NAFTA, E.U., Mercosur, you name it. Is this the end of the American economic hegemony? DANIEL PASKIN Miami...
Many factors besides teaching, like nutrition and parental education, affect student performance, Koretz says...
...Dot.com closings get a lot of attention, but they don't affect the way people use the web. A recent Pew survey showed that only 8% of web users say a favorite site of theirs has bit the dust. And a report by Forester research says that despite the Nasdaq swan dive and the VC drought, people spent $45 billion online last year, and they predict that figure will reach $75 billion this year. By my calculation, that's $75 billion more than was spent on the Internet, oh, ten years...
...changes will only affect those logging into the system from outside the libraries. Computer workstations inside the library will continue to be PIN-free...
...government taxes cigarettes at exorbitant rates because higher per-pack costs affect teen smoking - and "sin" taxes go down easy with the public. It's a regressive tax, since smokers are statistically lower-income types. Yet nobody complains - not even Republicans, who hate tax cuts and take big contributions from Big Tobacco - because all politicians must be anti-teen-smoking. And all politicians love money...