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...their fair share for the sport and that the grind might get to them. The players should be careful what they wish for. Both sisters say next year they will play a full season. "I want to play tournaments and get my ranking better," says Serena, sitting with her pit bull Bambi in the home she shares with Venus in West Palm Beach, Fla. "I want to be the No. 1 player. So I decided not to go to school this fall." Then she immediately starts to hedge. "Maybe I'll be able to take one or two classes instead...
...hard. The coal is tantalizingly easy to reach; so are the lethal pockets of gas that cause explosions or asphyxiate workers. Zhang's husband, Li Zhenhua, had worked for a decade in a cluster of small, illegal mines near his Duck Pond village. Whenever an accident claimed lives, the pit would be ordered to close?but another would invariably open not far away. Much of the illegal mining is done at night to avoid government monitors. In any case, the inspectors don't have to look very hard. The earth around Duck Pond is pockmarked like a lunar landscape with...
...Friday, manufacturing continued to sink into its personal tar pit, with the Commerce Department reporting that durable goods (expensive, long-lasting stuff like cars, air conditioners and computers) fell in the U.S. in July, again, this time by 0.6 percent. And Thursday?s weekly jobless claims hit a nine-week peak while the number of people collecting checks hit 3.18 million, the highest since September...
...Well, it?s a Fed week again. The Body Greenspan comes together Tuesday to toss another interest-rate cut into the bottomless pit that is the collective heart of the American CFO, as Wall Street, Main Street, Washington and their one-man confluence, Big Al, all wonder: What will it take to get corporate America?s money-movers to pull the trigger on capital investment again...
...President's tax cut had a price too: it leaves less surplus to pay down the nation's debt, a condition that puts upward pressure on yields. Inflation--the scourge of fixed incomes--has doubled from its low 1.6% annual rate 18 months ago, lending heft to bond-pit suspicions that a recovery has taken root...