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...Lost," from "Alias" creator J. J. Abrams, in which a plane crash-lands on an island, leaving the survivors stranded and beset by mysterious, hostile beings who inhabit the jungle. From the clips we saw here, next time you fly, sit next to the most attractive young person on the plane - if there's a crash, it seems, he or she is going to live...
...earlier this year in a festival of short plays at a grungy inner-Sydney theater. For the actress, Moscow remains a few years off - in a much hoped for stage debut on Broadway or the West End. "Opening night is terrifying. So scary. It's like a car crash," she says. For this goddess of 2004, it's crash and Byrne time...
...with overheating markets and rising inflation, Beijing wants to ease annual growth of gross domestic product (GDP) from the current rate of nearly 10% to a more manageable 7%. But China's policymakers may lack the monetary tools to engineer a soft landing, and the specter of a Chinese crash is contributing to fears that the global economic recovery-already under pressure from skyrocketing oil prices and rising interest rates-is in peril. Asian stock markets are throwing off storm warnings: on May 10, the region's bourses tumbled by as much as 5.7%, registering their steepest one-day declines...
...Moreover, most economists expect Beijing will successfully cool growth without major economic disruption. "I don't see a 'sky-is-falling' scenario," says Bruce Murray, country director for the Asian Development Bank in Beijing. "It's not like exports to China are going to crash. China will continue to grow at a significant rate" of 8.3% this year and 8.2% in 2005, he estimates. But that's not to say that some overheated sectors in which investment has been rampant will not suffer. Beijing has targeted a number of industries-among them aluminum, autos, construction supplies, real estate, steel...
...Still, it's far from certain that China has the policy tools needed to avoid a crash. Premier Wen Jiabao recently likened his country to a speeding car trying to slow down without skidding. "We cannot slam on the brakes," he said. "We have to press the brakes gently." But the country's rickety financial system may not allow gentle pressure, because it has yet to undergo a full capitalist transformation-for example, some bank loans are issued because the government orders them, not because careful analysis indicates that the borrower is a good risk. So Beijing resorts to administrative...