Word: horizons
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...elephants as observers in an airplane estimate numbers from above. Behind us, across the border in Tanzania, looms the hulking mass of Africa's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, its snow-capped dome giving way to gently sloping flanks that shimmer blue in the dying light. Crumpled along the horizon to the west and east are distant smaller mountains: Chyulu, Ol Dionyo Orok and Longido. To the north is nothing but huge sky and endless plain...
...that the only human-resource problem Siebert saw on Europe's horizon. The most ominous is an aging population that for retirement will rely heavily on the unsustainable equivalent of Social Security--and, in Germany particularly, a higher-education system that ties down students for too long and doesn't prepare them sufficiently for a competitive economy. "Flexibility is still a taboo word in France," warned Siebert...
While the biggest hacker attack in Web history loomed like a tsunami on the virtual horizon last Monday, Alan Hannan was looking for nothing more dangerous than soda and cookies in a San Jose, Calif., hotel lobby. Like hundreds of techies who help keep the backbone of the Internet properly aligned, Hannan had spent the morning at the North American Network Operators' Group conference listening to a talk on something called denial-of-service (DOS) attacks. "I thought I knew about them well enough," says Hannan. "I didn't pay much attention. I wish...
...charges against Faget puts another roadblock in the way of attempts to lift the United States' 38-year-old trade embargo against Fidel Castro's Cuba. Just months ago such a move appeared to be on the horizon - President Clinton talked last summer of revamping America's "archaic Cuba policy" and travel restrictions to the island were eased, paving the way for top U.S. officials to visit Havana. But then the Elian Gonzalez imbroglio erupted, a case that has increased passions for both keeping and easing restrictions. And now Operation False Blue will surely help the pro-embargo lobby...
...speed. Investors feel certain that when the Federal Reserve meets this week, it will raise interest rates at least a quarter of a percentage point--25 basis points in the Street's calibration (1 percentage point equals 100 basis points)--and they fear more increases are on the horizon. Money flows out of stocks when rates rise or seem likely to, and did it ever last week. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 513 points, to 10,738.87, its lowest level since Nov. 11. The tech-driven NASDAQ shed...