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...dollars snapping up smaller competitors. Others, like Palm and Handspring, have tried to stave off the hungry advances of these giants by merging. Now it's the turn of Ellison's realm, the complex world of business software, to go through some serious cyclical slimming. The outcome will be crucial to owners of widely held tech stocks and people who use their products, which includes just about everyone...
Senior citizens are compulsive voters. Health is their issue. And so debate on a crucial domestic-policy question is hopelessly distorted. We talk too much about age and too little about need. The most important health-care question is rarely asked: Given the limited resources, what should be our spending priorities? I suspect that the correct answer isn't subsidizing prescription drugs for all senior citizens regardless of income. A better answer might be subsidizing the worst-case health-care situations regardless of a patient's age. Obviously this would still mean prescription drugs for the elderly poor. But what...
Brand awareness remains crucial in the money-transfer market, where transactions are up in part because of increased migration but also because more of the cash sent by the workers of the world is starting to travel through formal channels. Even gargantuan Western Union gets only a 12% slice of the total remittance market because so many people still send money by mailing a check or getting someone to hand-deliver the money. Every month in Los Angeles, German, 33, sends $100 to his sister in Nicaragua via Western Union or, whenever possible, by a courier who charges a couple...
...Initiative - co-sponsored by 12 anti-whaling European countries, plus Kenya, Brazil, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Its architect, Andrés Rozental, a former Deputy Foreign Minister and ex-ambassador to the U.K., had mobilized support from "like- minded" countries - and signing up southern hemisphere nations was crucial. "The notion that comes from Japan, that it's just the rich north that wants to protect whales and dolphins, is nonsense," says Richard Page, oceans campaigner for Greenpeace. "Developing countries have been taking a hard look at the situation and are realizing the importance of protecting these resources." Will...
...crucial distinction, and one that has often been lost on fans and media alike, who have steadily constructed and bought into an image of Duncan as the most indifferent, boring superstar in all of professional sports. Sure, Duncan may not scowl and talk trash, lose his cool, get in his coach's face, or skip practice. But as unassuming and stoic as he sometimes appears, Duncan has emerged this year as a vocal leader as passionate and confident about winning as legends like Michael Jordan or Larry Bird. After the Spurs lost to the Lakers in last season's playoffs...