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...shoddy quality it acquired in the 1980s. But thanks to a series of attractively designed cars, and aggressive cost cutting to ensure they could be sold at both profitable and reasonable prices, the firm has rebounded. Renault earlier this year reported record profits, boosted in part by the runaway success of its Megane car. Last year, it introduced a new low-cost auto, the €5,000 Logan, that is aimed at a completely new audience: middle-class consumers in places like Eastern Europe and Latin America. "Renault still sometimes produces dogs that don't sell, but it's innovative...
...massive exodus from Zimbabwe is both symptom and cause of the country's decline. Beset by drought and food shortages, runaway inflation and 80% unemployment, Zimbabwe's economy is just two-thirds the size it was in 1999. The country's best and brightest - medics, accountants, teachers, engineers and other skilled workers - are leaving in droves. The U.S. State Department says that 1,200 doctors trained in Zimbabwe in the 1990s, but by 2001, only 360 remained; some 18,000 nurses departed, too. The situation is now even worse. "It's no longer just a brain drain; it's much...
...Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). More than 95% of the population is infected with EBV, a usually benign microbe that sequesters itself in the immune system's B cells. Like any other cellbound virus, EBV doesn't remain dormant for long, dividing furiously and emerging in runaway viral mobs. But unlike most other viruses, EBV is quickly eliminated by the vigilant immune system's killer T cells...
...trashy and vicious” as the Concord Library Committee so notoriously did (and the New York Times reported) in 1885, but many still echo the concerns about racism the NAACP first presented in the 1950s—particularly with respect to Huck’s traveling companion, the runaway slave...
...runaway smash alone would not solve the woes of the toy business. Toy stores see little Christmas cheer in tackling the big-box discounters Target and Wal-Mart, and many are shutting down. Since last season's brutal price war--led by Wal-Mart--KB Toys and FAO Schwarz have closed roughly 600 stores between them. Toys are increasingly merchandised as impulse items at drugstores, supermarkets and even coffee shops. Starbucks has sold loads of the Cranium board game. KB, operating under bankruptcy protection, says it will close 164 of its remaining 820 stores in January. FAO now consists...