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...only thing that detonated was a debt bomb. The Marshall model didn't work in places like Mozambique and Peru. These countries were missing the vital social infrastructure, to say nothing of the legal and business background, that sped Europe's regeneration. By the late 1990s, the debt of these countries had reached absurd proportions. Today, for instance, every man, woman and child in Guinea-Bissau owes global lenders $964--a problem for a nation where per capita income is $160 a year. At last year's G-8 economic summit in Germany, the world's richest countries adopted...
Like a real Asian influenza, the virus first emerged in Hong Kong. From there it sped westward with the sun, lying silently in wait in corporate e-mail accounts until unsuspecting office denizens punched in, logged on and double-clicked on the file. Shufiyan Shukur, managing editor of an online news service in Malaysia, was infected when he got an e-mail from a friend in Hong Kong. He knew this guy liked practical jokes but clicked it open anyway. Too late. Twenty minutes later, he laments, "our internal-security people sent out a warning about this virus...
...High-tech, full-length bodysuits designed to mimic a shark's skin in water have created a hubbub in Australian swimming because they are said to improve race times by up to three percent. When Olympic 1,500 meters champ Kieren Perkins put on the suit he sped to his fastest 400 meters freestyle time...
Which explains how, at a community park in Gaffney, S.C., last Wednesday, I found my reasonably fit 34-year-old body straining to keep up with the health-conscious 53-year-old Governor as he sped around a track for four miles at the impressive pace of 7 1/2 minutes per mile. Pulling up lame, I watched while Bush cruised the final mile by himself. "It's unfair," Bush said graciously as I wheezed. "You didn't have a chance to warm...
...close to Lopez, "Jennifer was leaving the club when the shots were fired. She hit the floor and then got up and exited as fast as possible." After Combs came out, the couple got into the rear seat of a 1999 Lincoln Navigator owned by his record company, which sped away past a police cruiser with flashing lights and through several red lights. When police stopped the car they reportedly found a 9-mm semiautomatic pistol on the floor of the front seat. They arrested Combs, his bodyguard, his driver and Lopez...