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...global-growth engine." At the end of last year, China officially adjusted the size of its economy in an attempt to better reflect the plethora of activity taking place that wasn't counted in previous, Soviet-style central-planning statistics. The upshot was a 16.8% increase in gross domestic product that pushed China's economy past France's into fifth place worldwide--just behind the U.S., Japan, Germany and Britain...
Roberty hints further that it is a "product of its time," a comment that both titillates and advises caution. A.D. 150 was a heyday for Christians who postulated a higher God above the God of the Old Testament. The prospect of melding the Judas-Jesus story into this scheme is intriguing. Yet by 150, most experts agree, a "Gospel" said more about the group that produced it than about the facts of Jesus' life and death or even the understandings of his earliest followers. Beyond marveling at the variety of Christian belief prior to doctrinal housecleaning by the early church...
...every wife)--even sick days. Is the document authentic? The Department of Defense and West Point have studied it carefully and believe it is. "It has the same characteristics that you'd expect to see on Jobs.com, says the center's director, Lieut. Colonel Joe Felter. "But their product is death and destruction...
...more flexible pricing online - oldies and tracks by emerging artists might sell at a discount, while big hits by established acts might be premium-priced. Apple, however, is reluctant to mess with what it sees as a winning formula. But Levy tells Time: "I don't know of any product that has only one price, or that has only one perceived value to the consumer." Currently, downloads of single songs outpace those of albums, theoretically spelling doom for one of the industry's most lucrative formats. EMI Music vice chairman David Munns says that's O.K., and likens the change...
...continue to reinforce an economic structure that systematically produces massive inequality and exploitation. While Nike or Coca-Cola may serve as figureheads, society’s ills are not the result of the actions of “a few bad [corporate] apples,” but rather the product of a generally problematic system. Thus, insofar as ethical consumerism’s effects are limited to these figureheads, as a general tactic it is clearly insufficient...