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Thus far, fears of a "hard landing" for China's economy appear to have been overblown. The Chinese government has taken measures to curb some of the wilder excesses, tightening conditions on some bank loans and raising interest rates to stave off inflation. But the government clearly has its limits. There was broad agreement among the panelists that Chinese authorities have little interest in unlinking their currency from the dollar, despite consistent pressure to do so from the U.S. "The sanguine view is that it is not in the interest of the Asians to break the dollar link," said Tyson...
...question firms don't like to talk about in public. One Washington consultant who works with a host of U.S. multinationals says companies are reluctant to discuss the issue because they don't want to appear disloyal. But he adds, "Corporate America is looking at this issue intensely. The possible ripple effect of this is enormous." The war in Iraq has fueled the brands' image problems, but some say the causes run deeper. "There's a love-hate thing going on [with the U.S.]," says Richard Edelman, chief executive of the eponymous New York City firm. Simon Silvester, executive planning...
...unclear how MICHAEL JACKSON'S planned parade of witnesses will sway the jury in his child-molestation trial. But here's a quick guide to how the celebs' careers may fare if they appear...
...series of studies that showed an increased risk of heart problems in users of not just Vioxx but Celebrex and Bextra as well, and by FDA advisory panels that recommended stronger warnings for the whole class of pain relievers known as COX-2 inhibitors. "The cardiovascular problems appear to be a class effect," says Dr. Eric Topol, director of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. "But the magnitude of risk does seem to differ from drug to drug." It's now up to the FDA to decide whether the dangers, which in some drugs start to appear only at high...
...military's offensive in the Sunni triangle. Their model is Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which ultimately earned the I.R.A. a role in the Northern Ireland peace process. "That's what we're working for, to have a political face appear from the battlefield, to unify the groups, to resist the aggressor and put our views to the people," says a battle commander in the upper tiers of the insurgency who asked to be identified by his nom de guerre, Abu Marwan. Another negotiator, called Abu Mohammed, told TIME, "Despite what has happened, the possibility...