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...more and more economists and businessmen now think? After all, the U.S. has enjoyed four years of inflation below 3%, the longest spell of price stability in three decades. Could the economy perhaps race ahead at 4% or even more, as a few radicals contend...
Perryman of S.M.U. and others counter that in economics as well as military affairs, governments have a strong tendency to fight the last war. Even some staunch advocates of faster growth, however, are uneasy. Very few would contend that there is no limit to noninflationary growth--and if the old 2%-to-2.5% standard is obsolete, where should a new line be drawn? "This is new territory for us," says Annable, the Chicago bank economist. Given the potential payoff, letting growth accelerate seems a gamble at favorable odds, and one well worth taking. But it remains, and irretrievably, a gamble...
...infectious diseases humans will have to contend with as the world gets warmer, malaria may be the worst. Malaria is already the world's most widespread mosquito-borne illness. Rising temperatures will not only expand the range of Anopheles mosquitoes, but make them more active biters as well. Paul Epstein, an epidemiologist with the Harvard School of Public Health, notes that a temperature rise of 4 [degrees] F would more than double mosquito metabolism, forcing them to feed more often. A 4 [degrees] F rise in global temperatures could also expand malaria's domain from...
...White House. In the aftermath of Vince Foster's suicide, their version goes, Hillary Clinton tried to keep federal investigators out of his office to protect files on Whitewater and the firings at the White House Travel Office. Then White House aides stonewalled before the committee, the Republicans contend. Their report also names the First Lady as the person most likely to have placed her missing law-firm billing records in the White House book room, where an aide discovered them last year...
...Cubans, led by nonpareil heavyweight Felix Savon, will probably be the big winners, but they'll have to contend with the former Eastern Bloc teams (Romania, Bulgaria and Russia) that took half the gold medals at the last world championships. Americans can look for big things from stylish light heavyweight Antonio Tarver...