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...Portugal, Ireland and Greece in Europe, "countries that have caught up very quickly to the income of that area." The economic success of Mexico in the wake of the NAFTA accord also proves the case. "There is a very tight link between the growth prospect for Latin America, the payoff associated with reform and FTAA success," Velasco said. "It is the big chance Latin America has for jumping on the fast-growth bandwagon...
...specific changes in the body to yoga. The double-blind test, beloved of traditional researchers, is impossible when one group in a study is practicing healthy yoga; what is the control group to practice - bad yoga? Finally, the traditional funders of studies, the pharmaceutical giants, see no financial payoff in validating yoga: no patentable therapies, no pills. (Ornish's prostate-cancer study was funded by private organizations, including the Michael Milken Foundation...
Critics howled that Bush's reversal was a payoff to industries that had contributed at least $4.5 million to his campaign--an accusation that would have been easier to deflect had the White House been able to keep its story straight. But first it claimed the campaign had simply made "a mistake" when it included carbon dioxide as a pollutant in Bush's September speech. That didn't square with other recollections. "The argument that this was just a couple of words in a speech couldn't be farther from the truth," says Fred Krupp, who heads Environmental Defense...
...buildout accelerated, phone companies were creating a painful paradox in which their new technology generated a lower return on investment. The payoff for Internet traffic was particularly dismal, since data can travel across the street or around the world for the same basic charge. And this forced equipment suppliers to slash their prices, putting a further squeeze on their profits. "For the first time in history," says Tracey Vanik, a technical director of the RHK consulting firm, "there's no penalty for distance"--compliments of the Internet...
...with me? Who wants to either be chillin' in the 25th century, or buried as limp ground beef? Who'll cast their dice? I don't know the odds, but the payoff is more than you or I can imagine...