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...nation of spiritual seekers in the past decade, as faith in communism waned following the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. Wang Ze, a 52-year-old consultant for frozen-foods companies, became a Tibetan-style Buddhist four years ago after meditating to the Tibetan mantra for compassion, om mani peme hum (which Dadawa later turned into a pop song). He and his wife converted one of their four rooms into a shrine. At the time, they didn't know anyone else who practiced. Recently, he says, "we hosted an initiation ceremony for 17 Chinese." A senior lama in Beijing says self-organized...
...National Retail Federation has already lowered its forecast once, to a 5 percent gain over 1999 sales, and other analysts see 3 percent. Better than last year, sure, and still awaiting that post-Christmas pop. Not a disaster. But definitely ho-hum...
...crushing debt load, aren't the free spenders who fueled booming holiday seasons past. Psyched out, tapped out and even shopped out--How many cell phones and cashmere scarves do you really need?--they are making this holiday, as a Los Angeles boutique owner puts it, "ho ho hum." "Some CEOs haven't seen it this bad since 1990-91," says Peter Schaeffer, a partner at Ernst & Young...
...radio lover. I wake up to it, go to sleep to it. My AM radio - talk radio, on the subjects of sports and current affairs - is on for perhaps 12 hours a day. For some of those hours it's just off-white noise, a hum of verbs and volubility, to which I pay little attention while working or reading. But radio also provides entertainment and information, and I know the difference. So as a culture critic who can appreciate a spellbinding showman, whatever he's peddling, I introduced conservative chat guru Rush Limbaugh to TIME's readers back...
Welch simply is without peer, and that's exactly why GE's stock is headed for ho-hum. He's retiring. With the Honeywell deal, Welch agreed to stick around eight months longer, until the end of next year. After that, though, he's teeing off at Augusta...