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...Times Higher Education Supplement soon plans to rank the schools by discipline in order to help those which do not necessarily do well in the citations category. They also plan to expand their data collection for subsequent rankings...
There are also remnants of the competition between Pixar and Dreamworks, the creator of the wildly successful Shrek animated series. The Shrek series made the talking donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy into a main character and was rewarded with favorable publicity. The Incredibles feebly attempts to expand the racial horizon of its previous films by giving a bit role to superhero Frozone—celebrity voiced by Samuel L. Jackson—who gets approximately 15 minutes of screen time. More successful is Pixar’s attempt to challenge Dreamworks on the belly-laugh front: when Jack Jack...
...President's policy toward that budget deficit could prove to be a major factor for the economies of Asia. If the deficit is steadily reduced, growth in the States might slow and drag down Asian economies with it. But if the deficit continues to expand, the impact might be even worse. Beijing and Tokyo might lose interest in buying U.S. government bonds, which would speed up the deterioration in the value of the dollar and exert painful pressure on the global economy. "If the U.S. continues with the current fiscal policy, the chance of a dollar crisis is high," says...
Meanwhile, PetroChina may dramatically expand its holdings in Sudan as part of a multibillion-dollar restructuring deal with its parent company, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC...
...KERRY: He wants to reinstate the so-called polluter-pays tax on makers of chemicals and oil products and use that money to expand the Superfund program for cleaning up contaminated sites. He promises to expand the Clean Air Act, which was scaled back by the Bush Administration. To reduce U.S. oil consumption, Kerry proposes incentives for research in renewable energy and tax credits for buyers and manufacturers of hybrid cars. --By Jyoti Thottam