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...There are other signs that Japan's economic fog is lifting. Despite their reputation for chronic unprofitability, the country's major listed companies posted a combined total annual income in fiscal 2002 that was 20% higher than in the previous record year of 1990, according to Merrill Lynch. Meanwhile, periodic routine government updates on key indicators, such as job growth, wage growth, executive sentiment and capital investment, have all revealed significant improvements. And most recently, the International Monetary Fund has joined the party, revising its projected 2003 economic-growth rate for Japan from 0.8% to 2.0%?while downgrading the Eurozone...
...save Chick-Fil-A. Those of its appreciators who remain will have to travel miles, to Burlington or Peabody, for a fleeting assignation with that dear, dear sandwich. And those faithful numbers will dwindle with each coming month, as a delight we took for granted recedes into the fog of memory. The Class of 2007 is already here: 1600 bright, innocent stomachs for whom a Harvard Chick-Fil-A is no realer than parietal rules or a Dean of the College who is not also in charge of undergraduate education. The Greenhouse’s Chick...
...SecuFog, the latest auto-security device from Germany, is a small metal cartridge filled with a mixture of glycol and water and attached to a vehicle's regular alarm system. When the alarm is activated by a break-in, a 12-volt impulse turns the mixture into an impenetrable fog, filling the cabin in seconds and preventing thieves from driving away. Even with all doors open, it takes 10 to 15 minutes for the fog to clear - leaving a vanilla scent. Considering how often car alarms go off for no reason, there might be too much vanilla...
...mechanical engineering in "a large Arab city," computer sales in "an Islamic country" and business teaching in Kyrgyzstan--and missionary-recruitment seminars can sound like job bazaars. At a small Tennessee Bible church, a mission facilitator assured his listeners that "if you're a native speaker and can fog up a mirror, you can teach" English abroad. He projected a cartoon on a screen to show the advantages of being unofficial: a man wearing a turban and dagger halts a standard-issue, briefcase-toting missionary at a striped barrier while another Westerner carrying a toolbox strolls blithely through, toward...
...Compared with Hong Kong's usually dimwitted comedy fare, Truth or Dare gets credit for aspiring to be more than slapstick. Wrapped in a fog of self-involvement, the kids drink, smoke, party and feud between working lousy jobs. Life's a bitch in Hong Kong, the movie says, but at least you've got friends. It's no Kids, but Truth or Dare shows that in Hong Kong the kids are still all right...