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Japan is ascendant again, but China is wobbly. That's the surprising assessment of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Competitiveness Report 2004-2005, which ranks 104 economies on whether they have what it takes to keep growing. Japan, which placed 21st in 2001, has muscled its way back into the top 10 on the strength of renewed confidence and improved public-sector transparency. But China has fallen to 46th place, behind Latvia and Botswana. "The message to China is you've grown really well," says WEF senior economist Jennifer Blanke, "but if you want to continue to grow...
...babies in the U.S. is born at least three weeks before it is due. Even more alarming, that ratio represents a 27% increase since 1980. Advances in neonatal care have saved many children who might otherwise have died. And lots of babies who leave the intensive-care unit grow up to be healthy, vibrant adults. But no incubator--no matter how high tech--will ever replace the womb. The goal, as doctors and nurses who treat ultrafragile preemies will tell you, should be to keep infants from ever needing extraordinary measures in the first place...
...mother was a market trader. Their eldest son was "absolutely average," says a former playmate who only wanted to be identified as Ruslan. "He was O.K. at school, held his own at soccer, nothing much," remembers Sharip. Basayev now professes a devout Islamic faith, but he didn't grow up in a religious family. "We never saw [Basayev's father] Salman go to the mosque until the mid-'90s," recalls former neighbor Abdul. In his teens, Basayev fulfilled his military service as a fireman, spending his ample spare time devouring books on world politics. After leaving the army...
...unlike the pampered princesses sitting on their $182.8 million payroll, not only have the heart, but they’re tough and ready to fight. While George Steinbrenner forbids his team from having any facial hair—though it’s doubtful the Little Lord Fauntleroys could grow any if they tried—the Red Sox are busy maintaining a variety of beards and eccentric hairstyles, proving not only that they have personality but that they are real men as they showcase their own take on rugged individualism...
Human cloning has also been a charged issue, especially reproductive cloning—the implantation of cloned embryos into a surrogate mother to grow into a viable organism. While this type of cloning is presently legal in the United States, it is prohibited by University policy...