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...norm. Securities analysts, reassessing the impact of the turmoil in Asia and other foreign markets, last week began chopping down their estimates for growth of U.S. corporate profits, to as little as 3% for all of 1998, and zero growth for 1999, a sharp drop from last year's robust...
Short answer: Not much if the market doesn't fall much farther, because the robust U.S. economy remains as sound as it has ever been. While few economists expect a replay of the phenomenal 5.5% growth of this year's first quarter, most foresee a healthy 2% to 3% expansion rate for the rest of the year. The employment picture also looks bright. The Labor Department reported last week that the jobless rate held steady at 4.5% in July despite a strike at General Motors that forced factory shutdowns. And even with the summer swoon, the Dow closed last week...
Whatever the reason, the cloned mice were perfectly normal in all respects. They could mate and give birth, and their DNA was so robust that they themselves could be cloned--and their clones cloned. So far, Wakayama and his colleagues at the University of Hawaii have produced three generations of identical mice...
...people in the receiving towns see things differently. They point to the years of excessive taxes, shuttered businesses and struggling schools they endured because their property-tax bases weren't robust enough to support decent schools. "Was it fair for [rich towns] to have an advantage when somebody else's fundamental rights--in this case, a public education--were being denied?" asks Allen Gilbert, a parent from working-class Worcester. Spreading the burden through the state, says Randolph school-board member Laura Soares, whose town can now afford to build a new elementary school after a 30-year wait...
...changed course, abandoning Purism, as he called it, for something more robust and sculptural. His spartan, lightweight architecture turned rustic, with heavy walls of brick and fieldstone and splashes of bright color. He discovered the potential of reinforced concrete and made it his own, leaving the material crudely unfinished, inside and out, the marks of wooden formwork plainly visible. Concrete allowed Le Corbusier to explore unusual shapes. The billowing roof of the chapel at Ronchamp, France, resembles a nun's wimple; the studios of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard push out of the building like huge cellos...