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...Bountiful as Athens has proved, this month's Games are a mere dress rehearsal for the triumphant display that China hopes to produce at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. The nation's sports czars caution that this year China might not match the 28 golds it collected in Sydney, largely because some of its veteran athletes were left home in favor of up-and-coming talent. More than 80% of China's current Olympians are first-timers, and their average age is just 23. China is looking to these rookies to use their Athens experience to thrash the rest...
...afflictions as Parkinson's, diabetes and spinal-cord injury. On the other are the forces of reaction and superstition who, slaves to a primitive religiosity, would condemn millions to suffer and die. Or as Reagan subtly put it, the choice is "between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology...
...Arroyo must kick-start economic growth. Although the country has scored a few successes?the Philippines, like India, has tapped into the global trend for outsourcing and now has some 60,000 people manning call centers?meager investment is holding the economy back. Net foreign direct investment totaled a mere $161 million in 2003, down from $1.7 billion...
...Yukos political melodrama is hard to ignore. The Russian government is seeking to collect $6.8 billion in back taxes from Yukosan effort that has threatened to send the company into bankruptcy. That prospect is highly unlikely, but the mere possibility has spooked traders. That tiny share of the world's oil could loom large if it were disrupted even temporarily, which would surely push prices higher. Nor does the Kremlin appear to have any qualms about roiling the world's oil markets as the battle with Yukos drags on. "The people who are masterminding the assault on Yukos simply...
...record highs after Russian authorities told Yukos it would have to turn off the taps if it didn't fork over $3.4 billion in back taxes. Though the authorities later backed off and gave the company a month to find the money, the market jitters remained. In Kazakhstan, a mere $5.4 million is in play. Yet the mood in Astana, the austere, half-constructed new capital, is wary. "Doing business here is like negotiating with the wind," one Western oil company executive says. The timing of the accusations against BG is curious, coming just weeks after the Kazakh government announced...