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...Then there are Japan's heavily indebted banks and massive public debt which totals 135% of gdp, a ratio that last week prompted Moody's Investors Service to downgrade Japan's credit rating to a level on par with Latvia. The country faces a host of other structural problems that aren't being fixed?and aren't likely to be if leaders exploit the whiff of a recovery to justify continuing a pattern of do-nothing politics. "The ruling party could use this as an excuse to stall reform," says Katsuya Okada, a Democratic Party leader. Any improvement "is only...
...predominantly a problem of older white males. In this country about 4 out of every 5 suicides are among men. When you get to the older population, the ratio becomes much greater. White men over 55 constitute 10% of the population but 33% of all suicides. Women are going to be equally concerned, because the survivors tend to be women, the ones who have to live with...
Unlike many of its U.S. rivals, E.ON had its balance sheet in order at the end of 2001. After selling off underperforming telecom assets, it lowered its debt-equity ratio from 21% to 2%. (Compare that with 79% for Calpine, the power-generating firm based in San Jose, Calif.) Hartmann's advance team is already on the ground in New York City. Its members arrived to handle the purchase of LG&E, which E.ON took over through the acquisition of LG&E's British parent, PowerGen. Shareholders approved the deal last month, and the company is waiting only...
...plump up lips. It's already a hit in Europe and Canada, though its maker has yet to seek approval in the U.S. But last week it completed its U.S. clinical study, and the results were impressive. Restylane outperformed a collagen-based substance by a 6-to-1 ratio. Unlike collagen, which lasts only about three months for some patients, Restylane can last six months or longer, doctors say. And because it's a non-animal-based gel created in the lab (bovine collagen is made from cow tissue), it doesn't cause allergic reactions, as collagen does...
Slowly but surely, Harvard’s teachers are moving toward matching the nearly even gender ratio of its students. Overall, the number of senior women faculty in FAS has risen from 38 (9.6 percent) in 1991 to 78 (17.6 percent) in 2001. But for those concentrations still wrestling with unbalanced gender ratios, the increasing number of female professors is just one stop on the road to gender equality...