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...Japanese benchmarks in technology and styling. Hyundai's R&D budget has expanded 110% since 1999, to $1.6 billion this year. Hyundai invested $200 million to open or expand research-and-design centers in California, Michigan, and near Frankfurt, Germany; a $60 million proving ground in California's Mojave Desert opened in January. In South Korea, Chung expanded his R&D headquarters, adding a new design center last year complete with a 3-D cinema for viewing virtual models of new cars. Lee says Chung visited his office recently and asked: "Do you have enough money?" Lee, with...
...spirits and blithe spirits are relentless. Hardly have the campers arrived than their dorm is smothered in rainbowed posters bubbling over with red hearts, pictures of Garfield and slogans championing both competition and community. MAARCHE MAJORETTES WANT YOU TO HAVE AN AWESOME TIME! DEBS ARE MOOR FUN. LUV THE DESERT. And even before the maiden cheer session, six-, seven-, ten-packs of enthusiasts have clustered together in bunches, and begun punching the air, boogying, dervishing and screeching out the cries of their particular tribe...
...biologist plucked a red spot from a stone that had been taken to the surface and placed it in a vial of water. Immediately the spot sprouted tentacles and unfolded into a hydra, a primitive invertebrate. "We were expecting that at these depths Lake Superior would be a biological desert," said Team Member John Krezoski, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. "We're coming away dazed and astounded...
...workplace. Impostors include working mothers who feel inadequate at home as well as on the job, attractive executives who secretly believe that under those fashionable clothes they are still as fat as they were at 13, and innumerable men and women who fear that their friends would desert them if only they knew. In Harvey's book, Virgil, 67, a self-made millionaire in Beverly Hills, remembers his humble beginnings when he walks into his exclusive club and wonders when the others will realize that he does not belong there...
When the OPEC oil cartel was at the height of its power in the 1970s and early 1980s, Persian Gulf banks flourished like palm trees in a desert oasis. Arab governments, rich on oil revenues, were financing projects ranging from airports to universities, and the influx of money caused bank assets to grow 20% a year. Newly prosperous gulf families built banks as status symbols to impress their neighbors. The United Arab Emirates, which has a population of 1.3 million, had 53 banks in operation last year. Said an American economist who has studied the financial development of the Middle...