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...experts could discern the country of origin, and none of them could taste the prices. The wines of Bordeaux will fall in value when consumers' tastes turn toward the much cheaper wines of the New World. Let the free market play its role. Rudolf Wicki Hinwil, Switzerland One can spend up to €500 on a bottle of what I'm sure would be a very fine vintage of Château Lafite-Rothschild, but I won't. I'll stick with wines from the New World, where the right conditions produce fantastic vintages at much lower prices. The current...
What immediately draws your eye at the hospital is the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)--where up to 30 babies at a time spend their first days and weeks tangled in tubes and wires, struggling to keep warm and learning what full-term babies already know: how to breathe, suckle and swallow. Zachary Sean Noble is one of the smallest. Born three months early at 1 lb. 7 oz.--as light and fragile as a carton of eggs--he can breathe only with the help of a ventilator. As he sleeps, his tiny chest heaves and the translucent fingertips...
...Singapore before shipping to the U.S. and Europe, meaning more expense and delay. "The system is definitely under strain," Tucker says, and with the expected post-WTO export surge, "it's only going to get worse." Le Cong Minh, general director of Saigon Port, says there are plans to spend $600 million for upgrades, including a deep-water port at Cai Mep on the southern coast, by 2010. But the project has yet to be approved...
...says chemist George M. Whitesides ’60, who holds one of Harvard’s 21 prestigious University Professorships and has been issued more than 70 patents himself. “Patents give you some protection in a pretty uncertain world for the amount of money you spend on these manufacturing processes,” Whitesides says...
Tata is hinting at making himself redundant, which would let him spend more time with his beloved dogs and pursue his one rich-guy indulgence: his car collection. But in targeting a billion with a few dollars rather than a few with a billion dollars, he has created a legacy and a growth engine that won't run out of momentum anytime soon...