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...philosophy class ends, and several young men offer an impromptu campus tour: This lot is where the new high-tech center will be built. This circular driveway is the main outdoor hangout. And in this otherwise empty dormitory, a lone television set is playing. The TV, visible through a window, glows on, always tuned to the same channel, day and night. "After the second murder, they evacuated the building," says one of the students through an interpreter. "And they forgot to turn it off. Kind of eerie...
...pursue the gruesome Holocaust analogy, it's like outlawing the lampshades while ignoring the gas chambers. And yet President Bush is not searching for compromise on the issue of fertility clinics because there is no such issue. The Roman Catholic Church and others are publicly opposed to high-tech fertilization techniques, but they are not beating the drum about...
What ails the economy, TIME's panelists agree, is the hangover from the irrationally exuberant investment binge that saw companies throwing money at all things high tech. That rocketed the rate of economic growth a year ago to a broiling annual pace of 5.6%. But when the overheated spending failed to produce juicy profits, corporate America suddenly cut back, bringing capital investment to a halt and lowering gdp growth to just 1.3% in the first quarter of this year. Today's high-tech investment numbers still look "monumentally awful," says Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist for the consulting firm High...
...collapse of investment leaves it to U.S. consumers to take up the economic slack. They have done that so far despite a tech-stock implosion that has reduced household wealth and caused ceaseless price gyrations on Wall Street. Consumer spending has contributed some 90% of GDP growth in recent quarters. And consumers stand to get a big boost from what Berner calls "the most stimulative set of economic policies that we've seen in two decades"--a reference to the tax cut and the five interest-rate reductions the Fed has made since January. While tax rebates in the past...
...complained about making too much money. Loading up on tech stocks seemed like a no-brainer when the bubble was inflating. Who knew we should have been blaming our brokers all along? Lawyers working on contingency fees, that's who, and they are eager to help recoup the $3 trillion that investors have lost since the NASDAQ tanked last spring. For retirees who fried their nest eggs or boomers who blew their kids' college tuition on margin, the road to restitution could be as easy as dialing 877-CAN-I-SUE (where you'll reach some New York City lawyers...