Word: dangers
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...selloff was the surest sign that the global danger posed by the Asian crisis is far from over. But Van Voorst believes the action won't be sufficient to save Japan: "The few billion that the U.S. spends on propping up the yen are spit on a hot stove," says Van Voorst. "They're important mostly as a psychological reassurance to Tokyo. It's up to the Japanese to get themselves back in shape." Japan has been sluggish in responding to G7 pleas for urgent action, but Treasury official Larry Summers flies to Tokyo later today to press the case...
Still, there are grim reports that corporate America isn't taking the Y2K task seriously enough, a danger that will be highlighted this week at Senate subcommittee hearings. The Senators will be told that an examination of recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings found that 60% of the U.S.'s biggest companies had not completed the first step of assessing whether their systems are ready for the new century--much less begun fixing the problems. "That's a disturbing percentage at this late date," says Steven Hock, president of Triaxsys Research, which studied the SEC filings...
...millennial storm clouds? Mainly because the Year 2000 bug is what Paul Saffo at the Institute for the Future calls a "low-probability, high-consequence event." Says Saffo: "There is great danger in our cross-dependencies with computers, but there are also lots of humans in the loop making judgments." In the end, says Saffo,"the most likely scenario by far is that we'll muddle through...
...father, now 75, hasn't had any cardiac problems at all. My total cholesterol is just a little high at 200. My only real risk factor is (deep sigh) age: a few months from now, I'll turn 45, which, the experts say, pushes the danger up a notch. But I can't do much about that...
...torrid affairs but lacks "one single friend from all that ardour." She wishes she had been able to satisfy the longing "that exists in the head and the heart as well as the body," rather than finding herself utterly alone in her 50s, her sexuality fading, a silhouette in danger of becoming a "character." She didn't want to end up unhappy like her overwhelmed mother: married to a charming, philandering journalist who "didn't even take the cigarette out of his mouth" to bestow a kiss, who forgot the name of the youngest of his nine children, who "dumbly...