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...self-respecting beach bum would be seen without at least some of the latest paraphernalia. A six-foot board, which costs between $250 and $350, is only the start. Next come the wildly colored drawstring trunks, the boldly patterned shirts, beach cruisers (bicycles with balloon tires and wide seats ( priced at $125 or so) and Zinka, multicolored zinc oxide applied like war paint. Those of drinking age reach for Corona beer, a favorite Mexican brew at Hussong's Cantina, a surfing hangout in Baja California. Noting the influence of the bar on surf culture, Moctezuma Imports, which markets Corona...
Last year Japan's banks overtook their U.S. counterparts as the world's largest international lenders, with $650 billion in loans outstanding, compared with $600 billion for American institutions. As the Japanese banks have seen their assets balloon, partly because of the rapid appreciation of the yen against the dollar, they have become more ambitious, aggressive and resourceful. The Japanese have bought up banks in the U.S. and Australia, financed iron-ore mining in Brazil and provided funding for the underwater Chunnel, which will link England and France. Taking their cue from Japanese manufacturers, banks like Dai-Ichi Kangyo have...
...camera or treated it with such relaxed irreverence. Kovacs' live shows were an engaging mix of scripted bits (with such recurring characters as the lisping poet Percy Dovetonsils) and raucous improvisation (to fill an extra minute at the end of one show, Kovacs tossed a big balloon into the audience...
With the new procedure, doctors insert a catheter into an artery in the patient's arm or leg. The catheter is pushed through the circulatory system to the heart. When it reaches the diseased valve, a balloon on the tip of the catheter is inflated. Once it's successfully opened the valve, the balloon is deflated and removed...
...report on use of the balloon therapy by doctors at the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Hospital was published in the July issue of the journal Circulation...