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...exporter of the robusta bean. But there's a bleaker story behind the impressive statistics. After the war years, the communist government embarked on a major resettlement campaign: it banned collective land ownership, declared traditional tribal lands state property available for redistribution and forbade nomadic slash-and-burn farming practices, forcing hill tribes to settle down. Complaints of corruption in doling out the land have been rife here as elsewhere in the country. In the 1990s coffee helped fuel a 12% average growth rate in Dak Lak, encouraging more settlers to flock to the region. Almost all were members...
...stock and cash for Hong Kong Telecom. What nobody realized then was that this khaki-clad scion who embodied all the Web concepts people used to act like they believed in?does anyone remember Metcalf's Law??would become the poster child for the New Economy's crash and burn. At PCCW's first announcement of its consolidated earnings last week, the company revealed that it wrote down $22 billion dollars in goodwill and was now, technically, insolvent. Li, who built his reputation on nouveau wheeling and dealing, has been reduced to that most mundane of Ancien Economy worries?squeezing...
...gunman outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was taking potshots at the People's House, Bush soldiered on, "working out in the residence," reported press secretary Ari Fleischer at the time. With his training equipment installed in the White House, the President takes time nearly every day to feel the burn. We asked Fleischer to get details of the regimen from the Boss himself. Americans can sleep at night knowing our leader can kick any other leader's butt...
WALK ON BY It was a relief six years ago when health officials announced that engaging in 30 minutes of moderate exercise, like gardening, most days of the week could provide the same cardiovascular benefits as going for the burn. Well, it just got better. Researchers report that, in women at least, one hour a week of walking--even slowly--could cut the risk of heart disease in half. Suggestion: Don't make the ice cream parlor your destination...
...might hate me, thinking I have one of those annoyingly efficient metabolisms that just burn up fat the instant it enters my body. You might wonder if I have an intestinal worm, or perhaps an eating disorder. Or maybe you'd just shrug your shoulders and figure I have a rich fantasy life...