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...past decade has been something of a Martian era of space exploration. Since 1996, the U.S. alone has launched no fewer than nine spacecraft Marsward, and seven have arrived in one piece--an extraordinary success rate for a planet that historically had been a bit of a graveyard of failed missions. Currently, six ships--five American and one European--are at work on Mars, and a handful of others sleep peacefully on the surface or orbit silently above, their missions completed and their systems exhausted. While a lot of the work the spacecraft do is the quiet business of spelunking...
Some of the challenger companies have already achieved great success. Among the 66 Asian companies on our list, China's appliance maker Haier has been so successful in the U.S. market that it's investing $100 million in a new factory in Camden, S.C. (And you thought U.S. factories couldn't compete with Chinese factories.) India's Suzlon Energy is among the world's top manufacturers of wind turbines, a renewable-energy technology with a limitless future. And Hong Kong's Johnson Electric is the world's largest producer of small motors...
These are some of the more prominent success stories: companies from everywhere competing with us for everything. Hundreds of other challengers that are relatively unknown today are ready to join them...
Smith: Except, in a public-policy sense, you could argue the success of the Clinton presidency stemmed from his ability to adapt rather brilliantly to the hostile climate created by a Republican Congress...
...Harvard’s ability to continue to run on all cylinders despite both expected and unexpected losses in key areas is a testament to Murphy and Co.’s eye for talent and an indicator that the Crimson’s recent run of success is not coming to a halt anytime soon...