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...Trekkers, though, are scrupulously monitored. Much of Sikkim is forbidden to foreigners, and access to the rest is governed by permits. Our trek was a seven-day slog toward the Goecha La plateau to see the sun rise on the world's third highest mountain: the mighty, 8,586-meter Kanchenjunga. Apart from a guide, it required three permits. But even if it wasn't illegal, wandering alone is a brow-furrowing prospect, for trails quickly extend beyond the reach of telephones. Dialing air rescue in emergencies is not an option, which is why, by the time we started, staff...
...choices. "This market is not for the faint-hearted. One good year in drams makes up for three bad years, and then profits are just obscene. But you're either big, or you're dead," says Penn. No one doubts that Infineon is big: it is now the world's third largest manufacturer of drams behind Samsung of South Korea and U.S. chipmaker Micron. Analysts predict that the semiconductor industry will grow next year and most of 2005 before the cycle turns down again. But this recovery, if it comes, will burn on a lower flame; growth rates are lower...
...fever is spiking in Taiwan. Since the Hoping Hospital outbreak, the number of SARS victims has soared from 28 to 308, a 91% increase in just three weeks, while the number of deaths from the disease has leapt from zero to 35. Taiwan now has the third highest number of cases in the world, behind mainland China and Hong Kong, and enough to earn a WHO travel advisory. The epidemic also claimed Taiwan's first political casualties: Twu Shiing-jer, Minister of Health, and Chen Tzay-jinn, director of the CDC, resigned over criticism they were too slow to implement...
...commercial jets." But as Knappen spoke, the government of India announced it had bought five 10-seat Legacys for use by its top officials. Bombardier - which owns Learjet, the world's most famous business-jet maker, and Global, a line of larger craft costing as much as $44 million - had competed for that contract. Bombardier, while proud of its status as the world's third largest aircraftmaker (after Boeing and Airbus), is feeling more and more like Goliath to Embraer's David. Under new CEO Paul Tellier, a proven cost cutter, Bombardier Inc., the parent company of Bombardier Aerospace...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the world “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...