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...revenues. Thailand quickly became the go-to country for comparatively inexpensive sex-change operations, where patients faced fees as low as $5,000, as well as looser requirements for pre-surgery psychological counseling. Thailand is now a destination spot for all types of plastic surgery as well as a host of routine medical procedures. Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok is probably Thailand's best-known mecca for medical tourists, boasting patients from "over 190 countries" and an "International Patient Center" with interpreters and an airline ticket counter...
There are, of course, a host of other issues that might swing the market one way or another, from the fates of Citigroup and the auto-industry bailout to the Federal Reserve's mid-December meeting, when another cut in interests may be in the offing. Add it all up and the short-term view is - surprise - more uncertainty. "Sometimes we have year-end rallies, and we definitely could use one. We could all use a break from this bear market," says Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research. "But just because we need it doesn't mean we're going...
...active crowd control on the night of the show. Ultimately, these particular mistakes are a sign of the CEB’s inexperience in planning events of this nature. Going forward, the solution to this problem should be to throw more such concerts, not fewer. The CEB should host more bands every year, including alternative acts like Girl Talk, which appeal to substantial and enthusiastic minority of the Harvard student body. To do so, of course, will require more support and funding from the College. In that vein, the College should not be dissuaded from supporting the CEB after this...
...taking into account some of China's peculiarities that aren't necessarily amenable to accurate quantification. This group is in broad agreement that while things will be pretty ugly over the next several months, the nearly $600 billion fiscal package announced by Beijing in mid-November, along with a host of other measures, will keep the Chinese economy's head well above water. As Beijing-based economist Arthur Kroeber points out, the same factors that driven China's extraordinary growth will provide a base of GDP growth that could amount to as much as 6 or 7% a year. "People...
...Americans of a certain age remember Cooke as the host of Masterpiece Theater from its inception in 1970 till 1992, and the writer-presenter of Alistair Cooke's America. These PBS series made Cooke, in the words of Masterpiece executive producer Rebecca Eaton, the "rock star" of educational television. On Sesame Street, a famous Muppet became "Alistair Cookie" on Monsterpiece Theater, and in Peanuts Snoopy imagined himself as "Alistair Beagle." Cooke died in 2004, at 95, and would have been 100 this past Thursday. In celebration, Masterpiece is running an hour-long biography, The Unseen Alistair Cooke, this Sunday, with...