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...What are the implications for consumers? Possible shortages of some produce that can't be transported. Meat prices in the U.K. may go up, as butchers turn to imports. The British Food Standards Agency says the disease has no implications for the human food chain...
...world's biggest retailer entered the European market in December 1997 when it bought Germany's Wertkauf chain of hypermarkets. Thirteen months later, it picked up a second German chain, Interspar. In June 1999 it paid $10.8 billion for Asda, Britain's No. 3 supermarket chain. Expectations were high that Wal-Mart would quickly become a major European presence by leveraging its super-efficient sales techniques, high-tech inventory-tracking systems and global sourcing prowess...
...rich enough to carry them out-especially since Europe is key to its plans to become a global player. Michael Poynor, retail director at London consultancy COBA Group, says Wal-Mart could achieve the scale it needs by taking a pan-European tact and scooping up another big chain in a third country. But that will take more time and money. And investors may go along for the ride for only as long as the good times continue to roll at a double-digit pace...
...snuffers of Afghanistan's Taliban have destroyed, with heavy machine guns and mortars and other explosives, the two magnificent statues of Buddha, 125 feet and 175 feet tall, that have stood for centuries in Bamiyan, an oasis town on the Old Silk Road, in a long valley separating the chain of the Hindu Kush from the Koh-i-baba range...
...their 125-cc bikes in a parallel state of high-octane agitation, squirting STP performance goo from little plastic packets into their gas tanks. The bikes are tuned up and the mufflers are loosened so that the engine revving at full throttle sounds like a chain saw cutting bone: splintering, ear-shattering screeches that reverberate up and down the Sukhumvit streets. The bikers ride in a pack, cutting through back alleys, running lights, skirting lines of stalled Bangkok traffic, slipping past each other as they cut through the thick city smog. This is their night, the night they look forward...