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MARS Magnetism suggests it's basically like Earth. So why bother going? Tourism predicted to plummet...
Others, like Dr. Karen Hill, who practices internal medicine in Austin, Texas, are learning how to live without managed care. Hill dropped 1,500 managed-care patients last year and saw her income plummet two-thirds. But she's happier treating the remaining 500. "So often we find ourselves practicing insurance rather than medicine," she says. "We need to get back to the reason our profession exists: our patients...
...embroiled in a banana dispute with Europe, which also doesn't grow bananas? Answer: Before the E.U. imposed the current banana regime in 1993, non-E.U. companies controlled 95% of the European banana market. Since then, American companies like Chiquita and Dole have seen their European market share plummet 50%. Hardest hit has been Chiquita, which has lost money four of the past five years--the result, company officials insist, of being denied access to the European market...
Girls today are in trouble. They lose confidence in early adolescence. Their grades plummet, and, following sexual stereotypes, their interest in math and science flags. They are plagued by eating disorders, suffer depression, get pregnant, attempt suicide. And it all makes headlines, spawns research projects and prompts calls for single-sex education...
...with the devastation that the Russian collapse inflicted on central banks and stock markets in other countries, even those seemingly out of harm's way. Venezuelans stumbled through a valiant, painful defense of their bond market, Brazilians scrambled to save their currency, and Americans watched a nervous stock market plummet, pause and plummet again. Russia's slide was a reminder that every investment is at heart a bet on the future. Last week the future looked awful...