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BARRY BONDS Hits fastest 50 HRs in history, closes in on record. Extra credit: the Giants are contending...
...longer an insurgent's career, the more difficult it becomes to contemplate disarming - and that's precisely the problem with the IRA and ETA. Ireland and Spain today are two of the fastest growing economies of Europe, and young people reared in the increasingly prosperous EU culture are increasingly disdainful of separatist struggles, much less those pursued by arms. The hard men of the IRA and ETA are relics of a past era, but it's not hard to see why they cling to that past. When a nationalist movement moves from insurgency towards politics, the power tends to shift...
...divestiture trend is a boon to the entire EMS industry, but Flextronics is growing the fastest. It has inhaled 39 suppliers and competitors in less than two years, and its $12 billion market capitalization hovers near that of industry leader Solectron, based in Milpitas, Calif. Both, though, face tough competition from Sanmina, which is based in San Jose and which last month agreed to buy rival SCI Systems, in a stock swap worth about $, 4 billion, plus assumption of $1.5 billion in debt...
...debate about whether or not the Internet is the "fastest growing mass medium in history" is absurd. Personally, I'd settle for being the second fastest growing mass medium in history. No one argues that web penetration has been faster than another little gadget known as the telephone. The telephone took five decades to reach 90% penetration. Mass mediums don't go away. That's why they're called mass mediums...
Since 1998, wind power has been the fastest-growing new source of electricity in the world, expanding an average of 30% a year. Sales of photovoltaic panels (also known as solar cells), which convert the sun's energy directly into electricity, grew by 37% last year. At high-tech companies and hospitals, executives with a special concern about power disruptions are looking at fuel cells to supply clean and reliable power on site (albeit at prices that currently remain higher on average than those charged by the big utilities...