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...During the Taliban's reign, the religious police would beat women who were seen on the street without a male relative - an impossible demand to meet for the millions of women widowed by the civil war - and would thrash men who did not pray five times a day or keep their beard at the proper length. Afghan officials have said the new department - which was approved by the cabinet last month and is pending approval by parliament - would be a kinder, softer version of its Taliban predecessor and would not enforce such harsh penalties for moral transgressions. Instead, the organization...
Oriental Weavers has been adding capacity at 20% annually since 2003 to meet demand for its value-for-money products. That includes a small weaving facility outside Atlanta to reduce lead times for urgent U.S. orders. Eyeing a huge potential customer base in Asia, the company opened a plant in Tianjin, China, this year that will serve the Chinese market. Lately it has been having fun with a deal to produce carpets with the Andy Warhol Foundation, using the artist's designs. Farida Khamis says the company aims to become a market leader in a new product line: home textiles...
...become feasible. Richard Budge, ceo of British coal company Powerfuel, says that "a reaffirmation of coal" is under way. Indeed, the British government last week released a report acknowledging that coal will continue providing a third of the country's electricity well into the future. A big factor is demand: global consumption of electricity is expected to double between 2002 and 2030. "World gas resources are not sufficient to meet the world's demand for energy. It can only be done with coal," insists Martin May, spokesman for Swedish power company Vattenfall. Not that coal ever exactly disappeared. During...
...YOUR STOCKS Oil, war and stocks don't mix. When consumers get pinched by higher prices and pay more to borrow, investors are worried that they'll have less to spend, thus lowering overall demand for goods and services. That's already begun to happen. After growing 5.6% in the first three months of the year, the economy is expected to expand only 3% the rest of the year. Thatand the uncertainty created by the Middle East fightinghas helped batter the stock market; the S&P 500 is down 5% since early May. And rates are rising overseas as well...
...move comes as demand for mass-market ads is heating up. Because of the limited availability of prime space on the Yahoo! home page, some advertisers who want that page are obliged to buy it as part of a package that supplies 30 million page views on the home page and an equal number of views on other Yahoo! properties. The price? A single day can cost...