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...hides many fine details. Hong Kong and Singapore aren't seeing as strong a growth in consumer spending as elsewhere. In Hong Kong, especially, perceptions of household wealth have always been tied to the property market, and because property prices have been slumping since 1997--with no end in sight - people just don't feel rich. While I was visiting there last month, the unemployment rate rose to 7%, the highest since 1981. In many years of trips to Hong Kong, I can't remember a time when the economic sentiment of those I talked with was quite so gloomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why East Asia's Economies Are Hot | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...lose a chubby-cheeked and fidgety 5-year-old and not notice she's gone? For most parents, 15 minutes out of sight would be enough time to worry. For the state of Florida, it took 15 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida's Little Girl Lost | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...they chop your head. Shooting would be easier, of course, but this is more intense. It's for the fear." And it's working. When the corpse arrived in Kathmandu for cremation, Congress leaders came to pay their respects. To Jnawali, who had seen his brother's wounds, the sight of him covered in flowers and bound in white was too much. As the ministers drew near, he brushed aside the orange and purple blooms and ripped open his brother's burial cloth to show the butchered body. "I said, 'Look at him. Look at what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: Return to Year Zero | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...Crimson took a 30-stroke move, as planned, and managed to gain a few seats. But despite 20 good strokes around the 500-meter mark, Harvard lost its momentum and sight of the competition...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lightweights Fall to No. 1 Elis | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...might have been hit by a gust of wind or something—our balance and timing went off a bit,” Fallows said. “When we fell off, we lost contact with [Princeton and Yale] and they fell out of our line of sight...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lightweights Fall to No. 1 Elis | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

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