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...wouldn't absolutely insist on that last part - Warner Bros., the studio in charge of the Final Destination horror films, is a corporate sibling of your favorite website - but there's no question that the series has been a triennial cash cow. The 2000 original (plane crash) earned $113 million worldwide; the 2003 sequel (highway crash) took in $90 million; and the third (roller-coaster ride), in 2006, took in another $113 million. And since each movie was made for a thrifty $25 million, there are big profits in the franchise. The only obligation for the screenwriters going forward...
...clear, China's phenomenal economic performance is still in many places just a statistic. It's over 1 billion people still lag significantly behind their Western counterparts in the prosperity stakes. The Chinese workforce is diligent and frugal, which contributes to this economic development. The question is, For how long can 10% growth be sustainable? Andrew Bond, Chiang Mai, Thailand...
China's Great Advantage There will be kinks. Chinese customers are likely to be just as sensitive to price as American ones, if not more so - and even China's low-cost manufacturers have yet to figure out how to make a reasonably-priced battery. Then there's the question of infrastructure. Few Chinese live in houses with easy access to plugs to power their cars, and there is little infrastructure ready for public charging. But none of that takes away China's late-starter advantage. Chinese companies don't have a hundred years of auto manufacturing to unlearn before...
...people die each year because they can't afford to see a doctor; nowhere else do 700,000 a year go bankrupt because of their medical bills. When it comes to health-care policy, an economist tells T.R. Reid, the U.S. is the "bogeyman of the world." The question Reid poses, however, isn't, What are we doing wrong? It's, What are other countries doing right--and how can the U.S. learn from them? A Washington Post correspondent with a nagging shoulder injury from his Navy days, Reid traveled the world to see how other countries' health-care systems...
Eric Schmidt, Google CEO The Revenue Question: 97% of its revenue is from online ads. Everything else is a hobby The Search Strategy: Ignore Bing for now and focus on making Google even better The Perception Problem: Google is losing its halo as it expands into phones and operating systems...