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...beginning of 2006, French prime minister Dominique de Villepin lamented the chorus of commentators gleefully singing dirges for France. A year later, he has his counterexample: in 2006, France pushed past Ireland to become the most fecund nation in the European Union, with an average of two babies per woman. Is there any surer sign that the French aren't embracing decline so much as they are each other? The Lyons daily Le Progrès was among those expressing congratulations to the women of France. "Bravo for having done this in such a gloomy climate," wrote its editorialist. "Everyone...
...office last month, are impressive. French women had an estimated 830,900 babies last year, more than in any year since 1981. While the average age of French mothers at childbirth continues to rise, they are still younger than in many other European countries. The number of babies born per woman is higher among the immigrant population than among those born in France, but even the latter bear an average of 1.8 babies, far beyond the rate in neighboring Germany and Spain . The boom may mean more expenditure in coming years on child-care facilities and elementary schools, but demographers...
...office when he began gaming. For his first tournament, in the summer of 2003, he drove to Nashville, Tenn., and crammed into a hotel room with six others. He took fifth place and won 50 bucks playing the original Halo. But by 2004 he was pulling down $1,100 per competition. In 2005 he won a new car worth $43,000, which he sold to make a down payment on a house and launch a fledgling clothing line aimed at gamers called Kiaeneto...
Take the nation's largest life-insurance company, China Life, which trades in Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York City. On Jan. 31, its shares had a price-earnings ratio of around 70 (a stock's P/E ratio shows the amount investors are paying for each dollar of per-share earnings). That's a richer multiple than investors are shelling out for fast-growing Google...
...onto something. Jets are uniquely polluting, and the carbon they emit at high altitudes appears to have a greater warming effect than the same amount of carbon released on the ground by cars or factories. On an individual level, a single long-haul flight can emit more carbon per passenger than months of SUV driving. Though air travel is responsible for only 1.6% of total greenhouse gas emissions, according to one estimate, in many countries it's the fastest-growing single source--and with annual airline passengers worldwide predicted to double to 9 billion by 2025, that growth is unlikely...