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...leading PDS candidate, it is expected to win more seats than any other party. More than two-thirds of PDS members are over 60, filled with nostalgia for the old East German regime. In fact, a worrisome "ostalgia" infects both east and west. According to a new survey in Stern magazine, 24% of voters in western Germany would like to see the Berlin Wall put back up. Bisky says his party's appeal can move west: "I want a socialist party in the Federal Republic of Germany." If opposition to Schröder continues to grow, Bisky's wish just...
...download numbers are still modest. Meanwhile, Asia's other pioneering online stores, like Max MP3 in Korea and iBiz in Taiwan, remain small and local. Japan, with its $4.16 billion music market and love of all things high-tech, should be an obvious opportunity for online-music sales. A survey by Japan's Nikkei Business Daily found that 47% of respondents would buy music from iTunes if they could. But Sony, the obvious candidate for market leadership (after all, Sony invented the portable music market with the Walkman), has been cautious. The company recently introduced a pair of updated hard...
...seat-beds in business class. Twenty-seven have even more luxurious accommodations in first class. The only U.S. carrier to offer a business-class seat-bed, Northwest Airlines, has the kind that lies at an angle, with the foot below the head, rather than perfectly flat. In a recent survey by Skytrax, a British firm that tracks travel trends, only three carriers received the top rating for their business-class seat-beds: South African, Virgin and British Airways. --By Sally B. Donnelly
...doctors may be ordering too many colonoscopies to check patients whose colorectal polyps have already been removed. Most patients with benign polyps or other low-risk growths in the intestine need monitoring only once every three to five years or not at all. But a survey in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that many doctors perform follow-up colonoscopies more frequently, which puts patients at further risk for tears in the colon and other complications...
...future of this spectacular species may depend on such experiments. Last fall animal conservationists were caught catnapping when a new survey revealed a sharp and unexpected drop in Africa's lion population. While the cat-conservation world was worried about the fate of Asia's endangered tigers, lions--considered vulnerable but not endangered--were quietly slipping toward oblivion. Ten years ago, the species was thought to number as many as 100,000. But the new appraisal, made public last September and published in the journal Oryx in January by Hans Bauer of Leiden University and Sarel van der Merwe...