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...BUSINESS China: Boom or bust? Fast Food: Taco Bell in China...
Nokia's Business Boom For Nokia, the world's largest mobile-phone maker, this might shape up to be an explosive Christmas season. Consumer groups in Germany and Belgium warned that the batteries in some of Nokia's most popular phones can short-circuit, overheat and even blow up. The announcement, made after extensive testing by Belgium 's Test-Aankoop association, set off a storm; consumers flooded the group's switchboard reporting their own mobile problems. The firm insists its batteries are safe and says many that the Belgians tested were counterfeit. Consumer groups say it's impossible to tell...
...point where we must dance, or at least nod our heads or beat on imaginary drums. Echoes is also reflective: on the previously mentioned “Open Up Your Heart” and the somber closer “Infatuation,” where kettle drums boom over an acoustic guitar and a shoegazing Jenner, the Rapture demonstrate that well-dressed New Yorkers have feelings too. The album sounds so confident and brash, so slick and assured, that it is impossible not to be convinced of this band’s significance...
...SQUEEZE The economy heats up, but wages, perks and benefits are still on ice. Is it a boom if it feels like a bust...
...ways to interpret our favorite bands shifting from bright to dark, or from abstract to political, other ways to read the rise of angry white rap; and there are, obviously, counterexamples. Marilyn Manson’s shock-rock, after all, peaked at about the same time as the internet boom. But Marilyn Manson is a countercultural figure, not a figure of the modern American Zeitgeist. Manson will be remembered as a diversion, but our memories of 2002 may well be soundtracked by Eminem, who tapped something in the national psyche and lay claim to the national tone...