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...perhaps, although the answer depends largely on how patient you are and how much risk you can stomach. Foreign stocks, especially those traded in hinterlands such as Sri Lanka and Pakistan, are notoriously volatile. But such budding markets also promise far faster growth than anything the silver-haired domestic economy is likely to muster, presenting the tantalizing possibility of such stocks rising an average 20% to 30% a year over long periods. So far, no large schools of U.S. investors are swimming overseas. A vicious bear market that clipped emerging-market stocks by 30% or more in 1994 remains...
DIED. JUNIUS JAYEWARDENE, 90, former President of Sri Lanka, whose reforms helped launch its economy but whose inability to stop a civil war has brought the country to a crash and cost it 50,000 lives so far; in Colombo...
...faith healing have survived only because they can be rationalized on their own terms against all manner of objections: they can never be refuted. But none of this is to say that we can do without faith. CARLO FONSEKA, Dean Faculty of Medicine University of Kelaniya Ragama, Sri Lanka...
...breath. I learned that only last month from an article by an English writer named John Hargreaves in Hemispheres, the United Airlines magazine. Although the word kabaddi is used for the chant in most of the world, Hargreaves wrote, "in Nepal this is 'Do-Do,' in Sri Lanka 'Guddo,' in Malaysia 'Chaddo-Guddo,' and in Indonesia 'Techib.'" Imagine appearing before the Olympic committee to argue acceptance for a game in which players constantly...
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: The death toll has reached 73 and 1,000 remain hospitalized after the truck bombing Wednesday that decimated Sri Lanka's central business district. Soldiers cordoned off the area as bulldozers cleared out the rubble and rescuers searched for survivors. TIME's Kendall Hopman reports from Colombo: "The rescue efforts were made very difficult by the clouds of smoke and a weak fire hydrant system. There wasn't enough water pressure to reach the higher floors in some of the buildings. The rubble also made reaching the injured difficult. The people on the street are in shock...