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...movies to watch out for in 2004? Which is rock's next breakout band? What are the cool gadgets we'll have to buy? And who determines what's cool, anyway? What's the hot toy we won't be able to buy at Christmas? Will China export another Yao Ming? Which miracle drugs are about to hit the market? Which new technologies will make us safer? What will we find on Mars? Where do Bono and Spielberg think we're heading? For all this and more, come with us on a journey to the near future
...important voices have spoken out against it. Rune Andersson, chairman of the board of Electrolux, the giant producer of washing machines and dishwashers that is Sweden's fourth-largest business, says he favors keeping an independent krona and central bank for Sweden, even though the company loses out when export receipts are converted back from euros. "We now have had 11 years of a floating currency, which has been the best period in this country for the past 30 years," Andersson says. "To have an independent central bank combined with a free market setting long-term interest rates has been...
...Beijing talks are more likely to produce a protracted stalemate. Pyongyang, might continue racing ahead with its nuclear program and eventually testing a weapon. The U.S. meanwhile is instituting plans to intercept North Korean shipping on the high seas in order to choke off the export of drugs and missiles that are estimated to earn Pyongyang up to $1 billion a year. Washington is also pressing Beijing to accept the construction of large, U.S.-funded refugee camps along its border with North Korea, designed to speed the collapse of Pyongyang's regime. But the North Koreans have warned that they...
Today his business produces nearly 40,000 instruments annually--99% for export, with more than half going to the U.S. Only 20% are stamped with the Gliga label. The remainder are sold blank to wholesalers for distribution under other brand names, one reason Gliga remains relatively unknown...
...past when Kim has emerged from his hardened bunker, he has proven to be a maddeningly immovable negotiator. Talks leading to the 1994 Agreed Framework took 55 rounds to complete; current talks have not begun, yet already the North has set the process back by threatening to export nuclear bombs. "These are people who believe in letting 20% of their people starve if necessary," says Adrian Buzo, an Australian scholar who was a diplomat in Pyongyang in the 1970s. "They already have missiles. They have rudimentary nuclear devices. What can the world offer them...