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After the death of wife Gertrude (Jennifer Lopez), Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck), a workaholic music publicist whose pathological impatience is both his greatest asset and worst liability, is left to take care of their baby, a daughter he names Gertie. Unable to cope with his wife’s death or his new role as parent, Trinke immerses himself in work until his father, Bart (George Carlin), refuses to take care of Gertie any longer. Flustered, abandoned, and completely covered in baby powder, Trinke has a very public nervous breakdown at a news conference. Though Affleck should never attempt...
...week, added to the alarm. Despite the central government's efforts to curtail unrestrained bank lending and excessive investment in sectors such as real estate and automaking, China's economy surged 9.7% in the first quarter this year, well above the government's 7% target. Another worrisome sign: fixed-asset investment spiked 43% in the first quarter, with the bulk of it going into the already frothy heavy-industry sector. Raghuram Rajan, chief researcher at the International Monetary Fund, warned last week of "signs of overheating," while Morgan Stanley's chief China economist, Andy Xie, asserted more bluntly that...
...tobacconists and rice merchants for generations. With the assistance of his second son, Minoru, and third son, Akira, now 67, Taikichiro built Mori Building into one of Japan's most successful real estate--management companies. (Two other children, Kei and Aiko, became university professors.) Fueled by the great Japanese asset bubble of the 1980s, Taikichiro reigned as the richest man in the world in 1991 and '92, according to Forbes...
...famous rosy periwinkle, a source of compounds used to treat leukemia and Hodgkin's disease, have huge medicinal potential. "It has become a cliché to describe Madagascar as a Noah's Ark," says Dransfield, "but it's true. If we lose Madagascar, we lose an irreplaceable asset." Conservationists are fighting hard to preserve what's left of Madagascar's biodiversity. Not far from the SNGF, the Horticultural Technology Center (CTHA) is propagating rare orchids, endangered in the wild by plant poachers who steal-to-order for international clients. The same is happening at the Tsimbazaza Botanical and Zoological Park...
...BEST ASSET: Demographics. People old enough to remember Joplin have already heard of Zellweger...