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...from the bowling alley he owns and lives above in Coralville, near Iowa City, life is now an anxious waiting game to learn the full extent of the damage. "I not only lost my business, I lost my home - I got the double whammy," says Metzler. "It's still shock, total shock...
...Taiwan's economy. More cross-strait tourism will boost annual GDP growth by .6% to .8%, according to a report on tourism in Taiwan by Goldman Sachs. "The implementation of these policies would support a recovery in sentiments and domestic demands ... and should help Taiwan offset the negative external shock from slower U.S. demand and higher energy prices," wrote Goldman Sachs analyst Enoch Fung...
Human beings are not wired to look at things this way. We're suckers for size, for flash, for speed, for scale; we mistake immensity for complexity and subtlety for simplicity. That has very often been our undoing. Shock and awe should win a war, until an insurgency beats it back. An election should be sealed by storming Super Tuesday, until the campaign dies of a thousand little losses. The 2003 Yankees, with their $180 million payroll, should win the World Series, until the $63 million Marlins send them packing...
...skyline, featured in the opening credits of the Late Show with David Letterman and serving as the fictional headquarters for the Daily Bugle in the recent Spider-Man movies. It has been a National Historic Landmark since 1989. Though the purchase is not quite as much of a shock as the Mitsubishi Group buying Rockefeller Center, the Flatiron's falling into foreign hands nevertheless carries symbolic weight and shows international investors taking advantage of the upheaval in the real estate market and the weakness of the U.S. dollar. The euro closed Monday...
...shortages and fears of outright famine in the world's poorest countries. Rice prices have nearly tripled since January, reaching $1,000 per metric ton last month in India. Wheat has doubled in price in a year and jumped 25% in just one day in February. Reeling from sticker shock, tens of thousands of people have stormed the streets in protest across the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia, demanding that their governments offer relief. They have found bloodshed instead. More than 24 people were killed in Cameroon during food riots in February; five more died in Haiti in March...