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...important measure?foreign direct investment?India still lags Asia's other emerging giant, China. India is expected to receive only about 10% of the more than $80 billion that will pour into China this year. No matter. India's companies appear to have decided that if the world won't come to India, they'll go to the world...
...they've had a fair idea about who's prone to developing it. To some extent it runs in families, though it may be that some parents pass on to their children, genetically or by example, tendencies toward perfectionism, hypersensitivity and perseverance - traits that, combined with low self-esteem, appear to be preconditions for anorexia. Typically striking in adolescence, the disorder is more common in affluent countries and, within those, in wealthier families. For every boy who gets it, nine girls do. There have been attempts to explain anorexia in the same way most doctors account for depression - as resulting...
...close proximity to Aboriginal Australia. This is cleverly suggested in "Prism" by placing her cabinet of glass-beaded native flora and fauna, Understorey, 1999-2004, in the anteroom to a gallery of work by mainly women artists from the Central Australian settlement of Utopia, whose riotous desert-flower colorfields appear to wink at Hall's work...
...leaves in the courtoom, but I think it might be Homeland Security's small way of combating the obesity epidemic.) There's an air of apprehension about the place, as if when a name is called, suddenly balloons are going to drop from the ceiling, champagne will magically appear and some avuncular guy is going to emerge from the shadows and say "Congratulations Belinda Luscombe, you're our 300 millionth American. Here's a trust fund, a box of donuts and a really...
...Sherwood's case, the course was particularly tortuous. There were empty tables at the fund-raising lunch at Keystone College in La Plume, Pa. The audience response was appropriately tepid when the Congressman was introduced with his wife, who had previously refused to appear with him and now seemed to be keeping a safe distance. Sherwood, you may recall, was the fellow whose affair with a young Peruvian immigrant exploded when she locked herself in the bathroom of his Capitol Hill townhouse, called 911 and claimed the Congressman was trying to choke her. The Congressman, who said he was only...