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...also a growing media powerhouse in its own right. Wall Street has rewarded the three-year-old company with a market valuation of $5.2 billion. Excite drew more than 16 million users last month and enjoys a $1 billion market valuation although it has yet to turn a profit. After Yahoo reported stronger-than-expected earnings last week, both stocks jumped more than...
...which should bring families back for their fun and Disney's profit. Audiences return to a movie like Titanic to relive the same experience. They'll go back on the safari to catch things they missed the first time. And isn't that a good thing? In a pop-culture era offering passive, instant gratification, this park seduces visitors into becoming active searchers for the bounty of animal and floral life. By adroitly mixing the educational and the enthralling, Animal Kingdom proves they can be the same thing. It's a fun field trip for adults of all ages...
Still, the question that Moore asks is well put. Moore asks whether, when a corporation is not in danger of failure, it is morally acceptable to sacrifice jobs for profit. This is original and useful. But it needs to be couched in a mature treatment of the issues. Even if his confrontations with corporate representatives are only slightly more interesting than sober Geraldo reruns, at least Moore shows the ubiquity of job loss and corporate apathy--in every city Moore's book tour leads him to, he has no trouble unearthing some corporate atrocity that the rest of us took...
Still, the role of the NIH as an agency whichfunds public research for private profit hasprovoked criticism, especially following a recentseries of articles in the Boston Globe onscientists who have gotten rich in the biotechindustry...
Sweatshops are the fallen angels of capitalism--the pursuit of profit and efficiency gone astray--but they are the product of capitalism nonetheless, and as such they should shake people's unflagging faith in our economic system. The two of us struggle to fathom placing such blind faith in a system which produces enormous income disparities, divides American social and economic life along racial lines and puts a Starbucks on every affluent corner...