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...that he sees it that way. Although the U.S. economy posted a heady 7.3 percent annual growth rate in the fourth quarter of 1999 - almost half a percentage point above preliminary figures released a few weeks ago - the consumption frenzy didn't roust the beast of inflation from its slumber. On the contrary, the accompanying inflation indicator, the GDP price deflator, actually came in belowthe figure reported a month ago. And the good news didn't end there: U.S. exports rose by 10.1 percent (2.3 percent above last year's increase), suggesting the world economy is on the mend...
...years Hollywood giants ignored the Internet because it didn't accomplish their artistic goal: namely, making money. But they were roused out of slumber this winter, when America Online announced plans to buy Time Warner (which owns this magazine, many cable outlets and possibly a small part of your soul). As if guys like Hawke running around with video cameras weren't scary enough, now they had to worry about those thick, broadband cables carrying big entertainment to PCs on demand. Even more threatening is the probability that AOL, by far the biggest Internet player that sends monthly bills...
...flies sleep? after prodding and tapping fruit flies, measuring their activity with ultrasound and infrared detectors, blasting them with sound waves and monitoring their genes, researchers at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego have come to a definitive conclusion: the flies actually doze off in slumber patterns that are strikingly similar to those of humans...
Perhaps most significant, many of the fly genes that turn off during sleep and on when the insects are active proved to be identical to those that regulate mammalian slumber. That means researchers can use flies to test potential drugs and genetic treatments for aiding sleep and preventing drowsiness, rather than putting humans in danger...
...SLEEP LATER With their campaigns in high gear, the presidential candidates have little time for decent slumber. Those acquainted with sleep deprivation offer some advice on how to keep going...