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...couldn't use a shopping run to New York City? But the euro's super-power could carry its own kryptonite, because it makes exports more expensive, potentially damaging one of the few bright spots in countries such as Germany, where exports defied the larger slump to grow 2.9% last year. (For more on the European economy, see business.) Europe's own woes make it unlikely the dollar will spiral much further, and investors won't abandon the U.S. "I find it difficult to believe that people will buy European assets thinking, 'Hey, what a great place this is!" says...
...schools at the top will not change because the number of people at the top 1 percent of the distribution will not grow nearly as much as the people at the 25 percent mark,” Curll says...
...that's not its only challenge. Like most successful upstarts, Under Armour faces growing competition from big established brands. Nike has launched a line of sweat-wicking clothing called Dri-FIT One. And Reebok is selling a similar line, called NFL Equipment, as part of a 10-year, $250 million licensing deal with the National Football League. Meanwhile, Under Armour's image of insider cool will be strained as it tries to expand its market beyond committed sports enthusiasts. "It's been able to captivate the hard-core male athlete," says Marshal Cohen, co-president of market-research firm NPDFashionworld...
...developed. Government can catalyze it with this policy or that policy, but that may make it happen only a few years earlier. It is hard to imagine what in the last 100 years we might have done differently. There were no other technologies that could have had us grow to a pretty good standard of living for at least a significant fraction of the world's people...
...Part of the problem is due to the nature of the beast. Sturgeon are ancient creatures that have swum the world's rivers and seas for millions of years. Clad in bony plates, they are fierce-looking fish that can grow to enormous lengths?measuring up to six meters from snout to tail and weighing more than a ton. But they mature slowly: some don't begin reproducing until they are 15 to 25 years old. When a female sturgeon does start ovulating, she can be quite valuable, producing more than a million eggs, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars...