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...purchase DVDs of shows ranging from Seinfeld to The Simpsons to Sex and the City. And the TV industry is loving it. Historically beholden to fickle ratings and ad spending, studios are reveling in a new revenue stream for which costs are low (old show, new box) and profit margins high--as much as 50%, according to Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen. By 2008, Cohen projects, the business will grow to $3.9 billion annually. The biggest beneficiaries: Time Warner, which owns HBO, Warner Bros. and New Line (and this magazine); Viacom, with its Paramount and MTV divisions; and 20th...
...will be observed by many people, even by-especially by-the police," he told TIME. "But we don't mind because we believe the police officers also have the Buddha nature. If you radiate joy, compassion, understanding, peace and calm, they will be able to appreciate it and profit from it." He said he planned to visit detained Buddhist dissidents as well as official church leaders, and hoped his visit would relax the official attitude toward religion...
...Chinese consumers bought about 2.2 million cars, and assembly lines in China should be able to make up to 8 million vehicles a year by 2010, even though the estimated market will be half that. As a result, carmakers have cut prices on some models by up to 30%. Profit margins are razor thin and shrinking...
...Existing data shows it is absolutely possible to be overweight, active and healthy,” said Timothy Church, Medical Director at the Cooper Institute, a large non-profit research and teaching institute focusing on diet and health. “We are overly fixated as a society on obesity, which misses the point of the problem, which is poor diet coupled with sedentary lifestyles...
...global situation. Even if the current political climate in the U.S. makes it unlikely that we will sign on to the comprehensive, multinational Kyoto Accords, politicians in Washington must find other ways to stem this growing threat. The alternative is that we wring every bit of short-term profit out of American industry while likely sacrificing its long-term health and the health of this planet. If we do not act, fifty years from now we will look back on our train wreck of an environment and wonder why we didn’t step on the brakes when...