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...This is where the Internet drug trade lives. First off, let's be perfectly honest: if you're truly desperate for the hard stuff, of course, it's undoubtedly faster to personally investigate local dealers than to wait around for UPS to deliver a fix. But if you're willing to wait a few days and are loath to leave the comfort of your home, your computer can provide a few options...
Congress is going to fix our financial system if it takes forever. After a month of asking Enron executives what they knew and when they knew it - and getting more Fifth Amendment pleas than answers - Enron-obsessed lawmakers, particularly Democrats, are massing this week for an entire Enron-based 2002 legislative agenda. A chunk of the proceedings will be aimed at the big Wall Street firms (Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Alliance Capital) that helped Enron get where it was before it collapsed under its own debt...
...heard tales of Japan's looming economic Armageddon before. But Washington is worried that the fallout from Japan's malaise could hamper a nascent U.S. recovery. Worse, there's no quick-fix option. The world's second-largest economy, Japan labors under the globe's highest level of public debt--140% of GDP. Across the nation, bankruptcies and unemployment are soaring. Practically everything else--stock values, consumer prices, confidence--is in free fall. The biggest crisis of all is the yen. With the Bank of Japan printing money to offset a liquidity crisis, the currency is sliding fast...
Well, it's tough to be a hero when you run a real global airline. If Ryanair's Michael O'Leary can bask in the glory of having built up a business almost from scratch, Eddington's lot in life is to try and fix what someone else broke. After rising through the ranks to lead Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific, the former Rhodes scholar (he left Oxford with a doctorate in engineering) took the top job at Australia's troubled Ansett airline in 1997. Eddington's cost cutting brought Ansett into the black and reduced its debt...
...boasts various musical influences. At their best, the band recalls the later Beatles, with cooing backup vocals and songs about sunshine. But this similarity is fleeting as The Sunshine Fix goes deeper into its own brand of psychedelia. This band doesn’t rock or roll, and lacks bite despite a toy-box full of effects. Still, the trip through Doss’ imagination is a curious...