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...OVERHEATED? China's economy grew 9.1% last year, nearly triple the U.S.'s rate. China's demand for raw materials such as oil and steel is insatiable, and companies are ravenous for bank loans to finance their expansion. China's central bank boosted interest rates in April, but there's still the risk of an explosive burst of inflation that could cripple economic growth. Even if inflation remains in check, says economist Donald Straszheim, China is likely to face severe blackouts as its inadequate electrical grid struggles to supply enough energy to power the economy...
History is littered with examples of misuse of executive power during wartime. Whether Lincoln’s detention of 13,500 people during the Civil War, Roosevelt’s imprisonment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II or Truman’s attempt to take over steel mills during the Korean War, these actions have all undermined the spirit of America’s democracy. The Supreme Court must take strong action against the Bush administration’s authoritarian interpretation of executive power and prevent the mistakes of the past from haunting this country once again...
Stock pickers should consider steel (Nucor, International Steel Group), fertilizer (Agrium), farm equipment (Deere), coal (Peabody), precious metals (Newmont Mining), paper goods (International Paper, MeadWestvaco) and energy (ExxonMobil). Then, when the prices you pay at the counter go up, so should your portfolio...
Daniel Libeskind makes glass and steel thunderbolts. Zaha Hadid goes in for tilting thrusts. Lately Norman Foster is doing armored towers. Among the world's most prominent architects, no one's work looks much like anyone else's. No one presumes to be handing down, like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe once did, the chief forms from which all others are supposed to flow. But with the singular spectacle of his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain--all that glistening titanium, those war-whooping arabesques--Frank Gehry in 1997 undid everyone's idea of what a building looks like. Ever since...
Some of her admirers in Iran call her a woman of steel. Sure, the Iranian human rights champion also has a heart of gold. But it is Shirin Ebadi's unbending will that explains how she has become the conscience of the Islamic Republic...