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...opportunity to go much further." And as the Indian parties all over Davos this year proved, it already has a crop of companies - Infosys, Jet Airways and Mittal Steel - whose leaders are trying to become the next masters of the universe. Indeed, while Davos was in full swing on Friday, Mittal Steel made an audacious j18.6 billion bid for Europe's steel champion, Luxembourg-based Arcelor. Naturally, such predictions depend on a huge number of assumptions that could easily be wrong. Both nations could be derailed by geopolitical instability or Western protectionism. Both need to overcome enormous regional disparities...
...drugs. We also have methods of monitoring disease outbreaks and communicating information about them that were unavailable in the past. There are plenty of health threats to worry about that are real and that we can take precautions against, among them the ordinary seasonal flu that is in full swing (and can still be warded off with a flu shot). We need to keep an eye on the avian flu. We do not need to lose sleep over...
These days, the timer makes the actual bell move, which causes the clapper inside to swing as well. A metal piece on the chain holding the bell kicks the bell back in the other direction at exactly the right time. The chimes will usually last longer than the timer is set for, because the heavy bell takes some time to stop moving...
...decline may be a matter of perspective; after all, no one can perform at peak levels 100% of the time. Over-training and bringing the muscles to the brink of fatigue can lead to a physical plateau, after which the body just can't run any faster or swing any harder...
...Chavez and Morales leading a new swing to the left? TIME's reporters across the continent offer their assessments of the run-up and contenders in this year's elections...