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...exports) and where currencies came under fresh assault late last week. Brazil saw $11 billion in capital fleeing the country in the past five weeks--not because its economy is weak but because of each investor's fear that other investors might flee any economy slurred with the label "emerging." Money also fled the stocks of financial institutions with lots of business and investment in the emerging markets. Citicorp's stock dropped to about half of its recent high, losing $40 billion of market value...
...lost ground, but he still struggles in reading and admits it's his most dreaded subject. And while he's not qualified for more advanced, enriching work, he does not score poorly enough to receive the special assistance provided kids with learning disabilities. "If I could give him a label, I know there would be all sorts of extra help for him," sighs Mary. Brian is mired in the middle, and even his teachers admit that's a bad place to be. "The high end and the low end of the class can take up all your energies," says Lori...
...panel recommend expanded approval? Its report talked about giving women more options. But let's face it: tamoxifen is already available for cancer treatment, so a lot of women are taking it "off-label" for prevention. FDA approval of a practice that is growing should make it easier for doctors to determine if their patients are sufficiently at risk to consider the drug...
...forthcoming CD, Ghetto Supastar, has generated a No. 1 single in Switzerland, Belgium and several other countries. Hip-hop mogul Sean ("Puffy") Combs is preparing to co-star in a movie with Al Pacino and planning to launch a line of urbanwear in 1999. Beastie Boys has a record label, a magazine and a clothing line. Rapper Master P is set to co-star as a computer specialist in Takedown, a movie from Miramax's Dimension Films about computer hackers. Master P may play a gangsta on his CDs, but in Takedown his character will work alongside the FBI. Says...
...brouhaha surrounding the explosion of writing in English from the Indian subcontinent--the million-dollar advances won by Vikram Seth and Salman Rushdie, the 36 languages into which Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things has been translated--it's easy to feel that the all-purpose label of "Anglo-Indian" writing covers a multitude of sins and that too many serious craftsmen are being massed under the Orientalist tent. Abraham Verghese's vision, full of the earnest self-inquiry of a foreigner taking America to his heart, might seem as alien to Romesh Gunesekera as Gunesekera's wrenching...