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...many people, the sight of a TV commercial is a prompt to either bolt to the kitchen for a quick bite or hit the remote for a quick escape. But last month Master Lock, a division of Fortune Brands based in Milwaukee, Wis., likely became the first national advertiser to run a one-second ad--snack-proof and zap-proof...
...starving, it can take days or weeks to stagger to one of the dozen feeding centers run by international aid agencies. That is what thousands of stick-figured Sudanese are doing right now: trekking desperately in search of food, tottering, often falling into the dust to die, sometimes within sight of their goal. This time it is not only emaciated mothers with their hollow-cheeked children but skeletal men as well, not just in the war-ravaged south but also in the north. Across the pitiless expanse of Sudan, starvation threatens 2.6 million people, of whom...
...since Bill Gates took Microsoft public in 1986 has Wall Street witnessed anything like the wealth-creating power of today's Internet stocks. Consider Amazon.com an online bookseller that has lost more than $30 million since 1995 with nary a penny of profit in sight. No matter. Amazon's $5 billion in market value exceeds the combined capitalization of Barnes & Noble and Borders Group, the two largest U.S. bookstore chains. The rise of No. 1 search engine Yahoo has been no less phenomenal. It stood at $181 a share last week after reporting second-quarter earnings of $8.1 million--following...
...both go back to the waiting room now," the receptionist said. Nisha and I just looked at her. We had no intention of returning within the sight of Nisha's unwanted amant...
...strikes have lasted this long because GM is determined to make a stand to defend its ability to compete. But Stodghill says there's no end in sight. "It's already gone on longer than anyone predicted," he says, and notes that even Wall Street -- generally supportive anytime management gets tough with labor -- has started to worry that the strike's duration may outweigh any benefits derived from taking a hard line. GM stock dropped more than two points Monday after weekend talks blew up, and was creeping back Tuesday only because analysts had fully expected the earnings carnage...