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...growing entrepreneurial class (40,000 private businesses were launched in 2005) and thriving commodity businesses. Vietnam is now the world's largest pepper exporter and second-largest exporter of coffee, cashews and rice. And multinational companies are increasingly selecting the country as a manufacturing base. Canon Inc. has two giant printer factories in Vietnam and is building a third in Bac Ninh province, 20 miles northeast of Hanoi. The new plant will be the largest inkjet printer factory in the world. Nike recently increased its annual production in Vietnam from 54 million pairs of shoes to 70 million, making...
...early 1990s, Yale researchers discovered a compound, d4T, that slows the progression of HIV. Yale licensed an exclusive patent for the drug to pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb, which then marketed it under the brand name Zerit...
...Mexico, central Asia, the upper atmosphere and the fourth dimension, there are frequent stretches where a new plot seems to start every paragraph or two. The book opens with the Chums of Chance, a quarrelsome brotherhood of operatives that pops up throughout the novel, circumnavigating the globe in a giant dirigible, on missions ordered by mysterious higher authorities. But soon enough, Pynchon pursues new story lines involving Webb Traverse, an anarchist bomber in Colorado; his three sons Reef, Frank and Kit; and the various women in their lives. When Webb dies at the hands of gunslingers...
...cash burning a hole in his pocket from the $2.46 billion sale of his first telecom venture, Esat Telecom Group PLC. By chance, he came upon a small notice from the government of Jamaica announcing that it was opening its local phone market--long monopolized by British telecom giant Cable & Wireless--to competition. At the time, Jamaicans had to wait an average 2.5 years for a landline, and only 4% of the population used cell phones because rates were exorbitant and coverage shoddy. O'Brien promptly plunked down nearly $50 million for a license, and the cell phone start...
...American approach modeled on Haiti could be Digicel's downfall, says Yankee Group analyst Wally Swain. The U.S. is a viciously competitive market filled with deep-pocketed, giant competitors. "All they've faced before are sleepy incumbents," Swain says. "The U.S. is a different animal. They should stick with what they do well...