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...share of world imports will also nearly double over the same period, to 6.6%, and U.S. firms will be fighting to meet that huge new demand. Of $140 billion in foreign direct investment to the developing world, China received more than $40 billion in 2000--a number that could surpass $50 billion this year. U.S. firms are scrambling to provide that investment, through new factories, offices and partnerships...
...markets, faced with a Dow 10,000 they'd treated like a warning light all through mid-November, could have heeded, for instance, the Challenger, Gray & Christmas report that job cuts just since Sept. 11 were about to surpass the total for all of 2000. They could have gotten depressed thinking about those three U.S. friendly-fire casualties, or the latest suicide bombing in Jerusalem - or even the fact that those tech-pumping analysts are not exactly the most credible of voices, considering the stake financial services firms have in a lively, upturned market...
...both the Dada movement and the Surrealists consolidated in the postwar years. But while Ecksteins agrees that Sept. 11 will affect modern fiction, he doubts that it will provide the same powerful literary stimulus as World War I. "As numbing as the recent horrors have been, they don't surpass the days of the early 20th century...
...infected more than 60 million people, 22 million of whom have already died of AIDS. If it continues to kill at its present rate, it will surpass the death toll of the Black Plague within two years. For many years, this devastation was greeted by an eerie silence. Just in the last year, however, there is hope: by August, the cost of AIDS treatment in developing countries had dropped to $250 per year; countries across Africa and around the world have begun to shake off their apathy and denial and plan serious national AIDS programs; and the UN?...
...display of faithful dedication, the document is inspiring. It contains injunctions to pray continuously, exhortations to purify one’s soul and reminders that the rewards of paradise far surpass the trials and tribulations of this mortal coil...