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...trouble after a big, costly international expansion into Latin America and the U.S. in the 1990s. Consumers didn't convert to long-life milk in the numbers Parmalat expected. Economic and currency crises in countries such as Argentina and Brazil added to the company's woes. Its debt has risen to some $7 billion, and more than half of it comes due this year and next...
...made Intel chip and a screen from Korea. All those imported parts explain why, despite a projected trade surplus with the U.S. of between $120 billion and $130 billion for this year, China's worldwide surplus will be a slim $15 billion. As America's imports from China have risen, its imports from Taiwan, Singapore and Japan have declined...
...incidents culminate in John's indelible post-Resurrection portrait of Doubting Thomas, a man so obsessed with what he can "know" that he is blind to the greatest spiritual truth in human history. For it is Thomas who announces that he will not believe in the risen Christ "unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my ... hand in his side." When Jesus presents precisely this proof, writes Pagels, "Thomas, overwhelmed, capitulates and stammers out the confession, 'My Lord and my God!'" Jesus then turns pointedly to the other disciples and says, "Blessed are those...
...contracting HIV. A majority of sex workers, about 60%, reported inconsistent condom use. Since they have begun collecting data, says Lu, there has been a 25% to 30% increase in HIV cases among IV drug users in the province. The incidence of HIV infection among sex workers has also risen steadily...
...Corelli, 37, has risen so rapidly that in Italy he is nicknamed 'the Sputnik Tenor.' One reason is that he has a classically handsome head set on a 6-ft. 2-in., 185-lb. frame (his other Italian nickname is 'Golden Calves'); another is that he can sing superbly ... Trained as a naval engineer, Corelli did not start studying singing until he was 24 and learned most of what he knows by listening to recordings of famous singers. His professional career was begun 'by pure good luck' when he got the chance to sing opposite Maria Callas in Spontini...