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...Hurricane Ivan continued its savage sweep through the Caribbean, devastating the little island of Grenada and battering Jamaica, Stanley Goldenberg, a research meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Miami, got ready to fly out over the frenzied ocean. As a scientist, Goldenberg was thrilled by Ivan's wild beauty. As a longtime resident of Dade County, he was worried about the welfare of his wife and kids...
...That's a familiar nightmare for other manufacturers across the region, from toymakers to electronics companies. Andy Xie, Morgan Stanley's chief economist for Asia, says the region's industrial stalwarts face such competitive markets that they often can't pass along price increases to customers. "They are at the bottom of the global trading system and are the most vulnerable to a price squeeze," he says. Although corporate profits this year have been relatively strong across Asia, Xie expects this to change in coming quarters, with corporate earnings likely to decline next year...
...economists in Asia are keeping one eye fixed on oil prices, the other on China. Second-quarter GDP numbers showed the economy is still growing at a blistering 9.6% per year. But Morgan Stanley's Xie warns that "China can't grow at this speed when oil prices are this high." China's annual oil bill is running at $89 billion, or 5.3% of GDP, twice as high as the global average, says Xie, who worries that if oil prices remain above $30 per barrel, growth rates will inevitably be hit. "They have to slow down," Xie says. "There...
...there's something about her Vanity Fair that doesn't quite work. There is no depth beneath its bright surfaces, no potent emotional undercurrents. One thinks of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, also based on a Thackeray novel about an ill-born social outsider on the rise. It too was a beautiful film, but it did not merely record a lost world; it peered at it?as if the fold of a dress or the knot of a cravat might possibly contain the secret of life. Or at least a useful clue to correct behavior...
...there's something about her Vanity Fair that doesn't quite work. There is no depth beneath its bright surfaces, no potent emotional undercurrents. One thinks of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, also based on a Thackeray novel about an ill-born social outsider on the rise. It too was a beautiful film, but it did not merely record a lost world; it peered at it--as if the fold of a dress or the knot of a cravat might possibly contain the secret of life. Or at least a useful clue to correct behavior...