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...nearly 200 million subscribers, in just a few years. (The U.S., in second place, has about 150 million.) But now, the law of large numbers is working against the country's cellular duopoly, China Mobile and China Unicom. Earlier this year, China's heady subscriber growth rate started to sag; after surging 60% in 2000 and 88% in 2001, growth this year is projected to fall to 40%. Suddenly China isn't the world's hottest market?that's India, where annual growth this year is expected...
...yellow flags emerging? Sure. Last month's 3.6% downturn in housing starts and 11.7% drop in existing-home sales came just after homebuilding companies like Toll Brothers and Ryland saw their stocks sag for the first time in a year. But keep in mind that contractors and banks became more cautious about overbuilding after they were scorched in the savings-and-loan fiasco of the late...
That includes knowing when Botox won't be useful at all. Muscles cause some wrinkles, but many result simply from the loss of elasticity that goes naturally with aging (or, less naturally, with smoking and sun exposure), causing the skin to sag and crumple. There are treatments for this sort of wrinkle, but Botox isn't one of them, says Dr. David L. Feldman, director of plastic surgery at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. "I had a patient recently who came in asking for Botox," he says. "It would have done no good at all. In fact, she might...
...that evidence - with some nice geopolitical uncertainty thrown in for good measure - Wall Street is having trouble getting out bed in the morning. After the University of Michigan took the air out of the GDP number, the Dow and NASDAQ started to sag under IBM and Microsoft and not a few other heavywieghts, and after a last trading hour of total dejection, the Dow had had its worst week since September and was back under five digits at 9,910. The NASDAQ sank 49 to 1,663. Only bonds celebrated, and on the postgame shows, the capitulation-watch was back...
...cast and crew worked for four days on the Cape shooting the film, almost 20 hours each day. “You can’t be going to school and doing that,” says Lawler. One of the SAG members, Carolyn, was playing the part of a mother grieving for the death of her child. “She was great,” says Lawler. In order to prepare for the role, Carol shorted herself on food and sleep, dyed her hair and read several books on the psychology of losing a child...