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Hours later Wall Street was in full retreat. The global economy, once an abstraction to most people, had shown up front and center to deliver the bad news. Investors, fearing that the earnings of large U.S. companies exposed to Asia would suffer, began to sell. On Thursday the market dropped 186.88 points. On Friday, while the Hang Seng recovered, the Dow fell an additional 132.36 points, unable to take comfort in the good news. In New York City, out-of-favor issues ranged from big airlines with Pacific routes, like American and United, to consumer-product companies like Coca-Cola...
...with five times the population of the United States, will fill the economic, political and military power vacuum left by the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In this emerging balance of power, with the stakes as high as economic and military security for all, we hope Beijing does not retreat into defensive isolation...
Reluctant revolutionaries retreat in Russia (TIME Daily...
...imposed exile from the West Wing, Hillary is putting in an occasional appearance there again, expressing her views on everything from race relations to an initiative grandly titled the Millennium Program, a series of events designed to celebrate the new millennium. The First Lady insists that there was no retreat and no comeback--and that her generation's ambivalence about her role has not changed her in the least. "I continue to do what I want to do and what I consider important," she told TIME. "These questions I don't really find are ones I can respond to. Somebody...
...consensus. "It doesn't mean we vote on what the dharma is," says Kornfield, "but there is a kind of input from our communities." Women received more authority. Morreale notes that the "almost martial discipline" of the Zen masters softened, and the monastic pattern of "strict practice and intensive retreat," which had continued to mark early American observance, gave way in many cases to "strong daily practice in the midst of one's ordinary circumstances." For many Buddhists, even one so serious as Gere, this seems to mean 45 minutes to an hour of meditation...