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...Americans are willing to dish out fifty dollars to buy a superior academic book--even when it deals with a burning contemporary issue, takes a peak into the Royal family (o.k., so 17th century gossip is old news) and explores mysteries...
...Eagles, who were at their peak just two years ago, are trapped in college hell: they're rebuilding...
Going into the tournament with a 15-game once-beaten once-tied streak, the Terriers have scored 84 goals for an average of 5.6 tallies a game. "We usually peak at this time of year. These are the games that count. This is the Beanpot...
...because of epidemics, warfare, ecological calamities, shifts in trade or social disorder. Calah, Tikal and Angkor are among the fabled places that disappeared into the sands or jungles of time. Surviving cities have undergone wild swings of fortune. Alexandria, Egypt, may have housed several hundred thousand people at its peak in Roman times, but when Napoleon entered it in 1798, it had shrunk to 4,000 souls. Since then, it has again boomed to nearly 3 million and faces grave ecological threats. The gleaming city that Arab poet Ibn Dukmak compared to "a golden crown, set with pearls, perfumed with...
...lament echoes across the $339 billion Japanese auto industry, which finds itself running low on gas. The industry accounts for 10% of Japan's overall economy; thus its falling fortunes are a major factor in a deepening recession. Domestic car and truck sales are down 13% from the 1990 peak of 7.7 ( million vehicles, and profits for the five biggest carmakers -- Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi and Mazda -- are off about 64% from the same year. Some of the smaller companies, like Isuzu, have been in the red for two years and may soon be joined by the likes of Nissan...