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...hands are coated with gymnasts' chalk that is as white as her uniform, as white as her face. She is an infinitely solemn wisp of a girl, 4 ft. 11 in. tall, a mere 86 lbs.; dark circles above her cheeks; a Kean-eyed elf. Then, with no more strain than it would take to raise a hand to a friend, she is airborne: a backflip, landing on the sliver of a bar with a thunk so solid it reverberates; up, backward again, a second blind flip, and a landing. No 747 ever set itself down on a two-mile...
...from leader of the pack Canon. IDC sees an end to revenue growth for the foreseeable future, as the 10% growth in unit sales will translate into only a 2.2% boost in revenue, to $33.3 billion, after which industry sales will drop 2.6% to $32.5 billion in 2007. The strain of a shrinking market has already forced at least three notable vendors out - Konica Minolta exited last spring, selling patents and assets to Sony. Kyocera shuttered its camera business in 2005, two decades after entering the photography market by buying Japan's venerable Yashica Camera Co. and its Contax brand...
Japanese Gesture A shrine visit could mean trouble PM Junichiro Koizumi's likely visit this week to the Yasukuni shrine honoring Japan's war dead may create more strain with South Korea and China, who see it as an homage to Japanese atrocities...
When people ask me what a war correspondent's life is like, they're usually expecting tales of high drama and great danger, of intolerable mental strain and how-the-hell-do-you-manage physical stress. After three and a half years in Iraq, I have so many stories of that ilk I may never need to pay for my own drink again. But as difficult as working in Iraq can be, many in the press corps here will tell you that, often, the hardest time is when you're not working. For a journalist, life in Baghdad is about...
...What is clear is that with Israel fighting enemies on two fronts, the Middle East strain is deepening. This week's operation inside Israel's borders by Hizballah, which is financed by Iran and closely allied with radical Palestinian factions like Hamas, brings into focus the new dangerous balance of power in the region that has been taking shape since the Bush administration sent U.S. forces into Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein...