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...difficulty, in fact, is something Keilis-Borok seems to relish. He started wrestling with quake prediction in the 1960s and persevered well past the point where many others had given up. The leader of an international team of some 20 researchers, KB, as he is known to colleagues, now divides his time between UCLA, a physics center in Italy and his native Moscow, where he founded an institute for studying earthquake prediction...
Longer term, there's little question that Wal-Mart has gained an edge. Its share of the $25 billion traditional toy business has grown from 10.8% in 1993 to 21% today (and some analysts estimate it's more like 25%). Toys "R" Us, KB Toys and smaller toy chains, meanwhile, have either lost share, quit the business or struggled to hold ground. Says analyst Todd Kuhrt of Midwest Research, "It's clear that consumers are voting with their wallets for Wal-Mart and Target...
...referendum on him than a judgment on his opponent. President George W. Bush has taken this truism to a new level. With just under a year to go before Nov. 2, 2004, Americans are already finding ways to show how passionately they feel about their President. In August, KB Toys rolled out its George W. Bush Elite Force Aviator doll, a 12-in. action figure in full naval flight gear. At $39.99, it has set the sales record for collectible action figures on KB's website. There's also brisk traffic on the Web for donations in memory of Sally...
Among the firms Root surveyed, the usual U.S. suspects--such as Dell Computer, GE, Pfizer, Microsoft and Wal-Mart--beat the index and passed all his tests. But so did some less predictable, smaller multinationals such as footwear and apparel maker Timberland and home builder KB Home. Says Root: "Profitable foreign growers come from all walks of life...
...cited as the motivation behind this move, though the act only requires service providers to remove or block access to copyrighted information after receiving notification from the copyright’s owner. To top it off, Yale has reduced the maximum possible Kazaa connection speed to a slothly 50 kb per second, allowing students to download a sizeable movie over the course of about a week...