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...spirits high during the street protests that brought Yushchenko to power. But questions persist about her integrity, especially about how she acquired her wealth - estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars - during the mid-1990s when she ran the country's largest energy firm. Last September, at the height of Ukraine's presidential campaign, Russian military prosecutors placed Tymoshenko on Interpol's wanted list, alleging that in 1996-97 she bribed Russian officers to buy Ukrainian goods from her companies. Tymoshenko dismisses those charges as a Kremlin trick, and she's convinced she can help heal the country...
...find gemstones in the scrap heap face one other glass shard. When SOEs go public, government entities continue to hold up to 70% of the shares. Bejing in effect banned the sale of these shares, so the state would maintain corporate control. But in June 2001, at the height of the market bubble, the government announced that it would allow the sale of some "nontradable" shares and use the proceeds to fund a national pension scheme. Investors panicked, fearing a flood of new shares would drive down prices. Although the government quickly reversed its decision, the markets lost a quarter...
Richard Li, the entrepreneurial son of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, had big plans in 2000 when, during the height of dotcom mania, he used the inflated stock of his Internet start-up to buy Hong Kong's dominant phone company, Hong Kong Telecom. Li's grand vision was to use the telco's network as a springboard to launch an interactive entertainment service called Network of the World (NOW), aimed at delivering TV-style content over the Internet to global subscribers. But NOW flopped when the Internet bubble popped, and a chastened Li was left with little more...
...time that outstrip plasma and LCD with a much lower power drain. Toshiba says that production costs over time could make SED TVs relatively affordable, but the first, a big-screen set scheduled for launch this year, will cost a wheelbarrow of cash filled to an as-yet-undisclosed height...
...obese women still had a significantly higher risk of death than their lean counterparts. Hu defined active obese women as those who spent 3.5 or more hours exercising per week with a body-mass index—weight in kilograms over the square of the person’s height in meters—of 30 or higher...