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...only is the air cleaner in the Centennial State, but the people there also l ive longer. A Harvard study showed that the seven U.S. counties with the greatest average life expectancy--81.3 years--were all in Colorado. (Clear Creek, Eagle, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Park and Summit, for those of you thinking about packing a U-Haul.) Exactly what's so special about Colorado is not entirely clear, since the study authors controlled for any bias caused by race or income. Perhaps the residents' good fortune has to do with the fact that they all live in mountainous areas, where...
...city's experience a few weeks ago during the China-Africa Summit may have foreshadowed the kind of drastic measures required to clean up Beijing's air during the Olympics. In preparation for the summit, which ended in early November and featured a whopping 42 heads of state, authorities ordered half a million official cars off the roads and said 400,000 other drivers had "volunteered" not to use their vehicles. The measures worked--for a short time. The air-pollution index fell to a normal level on the last day of the meeting. Within days, however, the smog shot...
NATO Riga Summit Latvia to host 26-nation meeting...
President Bush is set to visit Riga, Latvia, this week for a NATO summit, at which he will urge greater spending for Afghanistan as well as propose a military pact with Australia, Japan and South Korea...
...Glance through the business news these days and it quickly becomes apparent Chandrasekhar is right. As international business leaders prepare to arrive in New Delhi for the World Economic Forum's annual India Economic Summit, India is ending decades of isolation. Indian companies have returned to global commerce. Indian-born business executives are climbing the corporate ladders at well-known multinationals, some to the highest rungs. Meanwhile, Indian companies, flush with cash from a booming domestic economy, are prowling for overseas acquisitions to expand their footprints. The most recent headline grabber was last month's $8.1 billion bid by Tata...