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...formerly reserved for the army, visitors shoot duck in some of Fidel's favorite stalking grounds. Gaviota takes tourists to the outskirts of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo and lets them spy on troop movements -- cocktails and binoculars included. TRD Caribe, the newest arm of Gaviota, is the fastest-growing chain of department stores. TRD, appropriately enough, stands for tienda recaudacion en divisas -- literally, "store to rake in the dollars...
...landslide on trade relations, promising an "open door" come what may at home. On Tuesday's agenda: U.S. officials expect endorsement of a statement calling for "open and free trade" throughout the region by the year 2020. BTW: U.S. trade with Asia, home to the world's fastest growing economies, is triple that with European countries.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
Also, though exports are now among the fastest-growing items in the U.S. economy, they are still running well behind imports, resulting in a gargantuan and growing trade deficit. That, however, comes about in part because the country must import such huge quantities of raw products, from coffee and bananas to crude oil, that it either cannot produce at all or not in the quantities it needs. The great fear of a few years ago was that foreign rivals would also take over manufacturing businesses, particularly high-tech firms, and reduce the U.S. work force to hamburger flipping. That fear...
...similarities don't end there. Dickerson was the floating butterfly to James' stinging bee; Thompson is the speed to Hu's power. This past Saturday against Holy Cross, Thompson, the fastest player on the team, scampered for 171 yards, while Hu powered for 154 in Harvard's 27-17 win. So far this year, Thompson ranks 20th nationally and first in the Ivy League with 117.7 rushing yards per game, while Hu is third in the Ivies with 113.5 yards per game on the ground...
Besides being delivered in its familiar printed form to newsstands and homes all over the U.S. and the world, TIME for the past year has been available electronically on people's computers. TIME Online, as our electronic edition is called, is carried on America Online, the nation's fastest-growing computer-online service. AOL subscribers can use computer message boards to exchange comments about stories in the magazine with TIME writers and editors as well as with one another. TIME Online has also brought in such public figures as the Rev. Billy Graham and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani...