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...Ugly Truth is a career ender for Heigl. Indeed, as the first romantic comedy in wide release since Sandra Bullock's The Proposal five weeks ago, the movie will attract its share of dating couples and single women. But if you're looking for a rom-com with a higher IQ and an almost obsessive aim to charm its audience, you'd do better with (500) Days of Summer, which should soon get to a theater near you, than this (500) ways of abasing Katherine Heigl...
...Chicago Symphony Orchestra has endured a 19% endowment drop, from $229 million last June to $185 million for this May. It's been about six years since Chicago's endowment has sunk so low, according to the orchestra's president, Deborah Rutter. But ticket revenues were actually higher this year compared to last. Though advance sales for the coming season are down 4%, Rutter is optimistic. The Chicago Symphony is among the lucky few that have yet to toy with thoughts of closing...
...telling look at how the fight is unfolding. For all the woes that beset the continent, Africa still enjoys the lowest smoking rates in the world, largely because most people just can't afford it. In Ghana, the male smoking rate (which in most places in the world is higher than the female rate) is only 8%; in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it's 14%; in Nigeria, it's 12%. Compare that with 31% in India, 56% in Malaysia and a whopping 61% in China. But the tobacco industry abhors a vacuum, and in recent years, industry players - principally...
...loans at 1.25 percentage points above the London Interbank Offered Rate, a common reference point for setting floating interest rates. The University's current $2 billion line of credit, set to expire next month, allows it to borrow $250 million more at an interest rate 0.25 percentage points higher than...
...feels a bit curmudgeonly to suggest these happy Asian trends should be greeted with skepticism. Higher asset prices mean households feel wealthier and better able to spend, which could further fuel the region's nascent rebound. But just as easily, Asia could soon find itself saddled with overheated markets similar to the U.S. housing market of a few years ago - and on the brink of another crash. "The seeds are being sown for Asia's next bubble," HSBC economist Frederic Neumann said in a recent report. "The world has not changed, it just moved places." (Read "Asian Nations Step...