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...France for treatment, the strains in the French public-health system broke open as G.P.s, interns, hospital staff, midwives and nurses staged a series of national stoppages. Their grievances ranged from low wages and out-of-step professional fees to calls for the government to create new jobs to offset the effect of a 35-hour week. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin has so far given in to every group pressing pre-electoral pay claims. Teachers also seized the moment to stage a one-day national strike for shorter hours and more teaching posts...
Still, all that action won't yield results in time to offset the winter chill. Bills are piling up so fast in Chicago that 3,000 residential customers a week are pleading with Peoples Energy for an assistance or installment plan. Some chemical manufacturers in the South have decided that it's more profitable to shut down temporarily and sell their contracted power back at a higher price than to use it themselves. (Which is exactly what aluminum makers in the Northwest are doing with their valuable electricity, much of which flows to California.) At a time when many fear...
Yale is sixth and has not fared as well as Princeton against conference foes. The Elis were blanked twice by No. 1 Michigan State in their last two games. Unlike the Princeton squad, however, who was able to offset national setbacks with local success, Yale has not been as consistent against middle-of-the-pack ECAC teams...
...gamble has been a losing one. Munich-based distribution company Intertainment took an undisclosed hit on the $70 million sci-fi flop Battlefield Earth, which it co-produced with U.S.-based Franchise Pictures. Although preselling the television rights across Europe helped offset some of the loss, that belly-flop may come back to haunt the company if stations think twice about buying in the future. Intertainment is betting on a $500 million, 10-film deal with Hollywood producers Anne and Arnold Kopelson, who were responsible for Outbreak and The Fugitive, to keep its credibility alive...
...seater isn't as practical as the Prius. Measured against the 17 million cars and trucks sold yearly in the U.S., it is a modest beginning. A major obstacle: the price trade-off for being green. Savings at the pump--magnified by this year's gasoline-price jumps--are offset by the $20,000 cost of either car. That's several thousand dollars more than similar-size conventional models. If proposed federal tax incentives--pushed by an unusual alliance of automakers and environmentalists--ultimately pass, "there could be a hybrid in every garage," says Roland Hwang, a transportation expert with...