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...meant layoffs among the biggest manufacturers: Infineon, Geneva-based STMicroelectronics, the Dutch giant Philips, and others outside Europe like Motorola and Mitsubishi. Worldwide semiconductor sales peaked at $204 billion in 2000, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), and slipped to $141 billion last year. More than 100 chip manufacturing plants, called FABS, shut down as global demand evaporated. It has been a long cold lonely winter, but finally there are signs that the semiconductor sector may be warming up again soon. Though wary of uncertainties, companies are cautiously talking about a recovery. "The companies that are big enough...
...notions of years past--conservation, fuel-efficiency standards and the like. But the fun part of the environment is gizmos. The President, a gizmo kind of guy, embraced the hydrogen car. The Democrats could do that and more--nuclear fusion, wind power, digital interstate highways (a computer chip in your car locks you in at 70 m.p.h. a safe distance from the cars in front of and behind you). Whatever. The key is to have at least one issue on which the candidate is free to dream, think big, tap the national spirit of adventure in a way that doesn...
...lines, however, were more sharply drawn for Chip, 34, a machine operator who grew up in a largely segregated community in Birmingham. But spending time with Yvette and her family and friends opened his eyes. "I discovered the real world," he says. "They've got the same bills and problems I do." And although his father still won't talk to him, his mother accepted the marriage even before the couple's daughter Lauren, 7, was born. Still, there are awkward moments, even with the more welcoming in-laws. It's confusing "at Thanksgiving at my [maternal] grandparents' house...
...Before economic reforms began to chip away at the communist system 20 years ago, medical treatment in the mainland?while often rudimentary?was widely available to its all citizens. China's famed "barefoot doctors," usually middle school graduates trained in first aid, hiked through hamlets offering prenatal examinations and setting broken limbs. The service, essentially free, helped to almost eradicate sexually transmitted diseases in China and nearly doubled the country's life expectancy from 35 to 65 between 1949 to the mid-1970s. But in the early 1980s, the mainland began shifting from communism to capitalism, and peasants...
Hendricks, who has not played since the Yale series in mid-April while recovering from surgery to remove a bone chip from his knee, sat in the dugout yesterday in his uniform but no cleats. If Hendricks were in the lineup, Dukovich—who had an RBI single off Pauly along with his ninth-inning walk—would have been available on the bench in addition to Herrmann when Walsh needed a ninth-inning miracle...