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...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...
...make a few million as a novelist and screenwriter. The author of Clockers and Freedomland - lush, knowing, best-selling books about struggle and redemption in the projects - has been up in that high-priced league for more than a decade. Which means that in the eyes of the world, he suffers from a variation of the Bruce Springsteen Problem. You can't help wanting a guy who knows the streets that well to live in the hood. As it turns out, the hood still lives in him. It's not just the enduring music of the Bronx in his voice...
...Sword), while the new Bic is expected to retail at around j1 apiece. That's less than its rivals, but four times the price of its basic one-blade disposable. Focusing on a disposable razor marks a change of strategy for Gillette, which has a 70% share of the world market for razors and blades. The Boston, Massachusetts, firm has been successful in persuading consumers to switch to reusable "shaver systems," including its Mach3 model, where the razor itself is virtually free but replacement blades are expensive. Mach3 became an instant hit after its 1998 launch, and the brand...
TROPIC OF CANCER Cancer was once thought of as a "Western" disease, the consequence of overabundance and overindulgence. But the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the rest of the world is quickly catching up. Cancer rates are climbing and could increase 50% by 2020, largely the result of longer life expectancies and changing lifestyles in developing countries. WHO estimates that a third of these cases could be prevented by eating better and avoiding tobacco. --By David Bjerklie
...Third, disarming Iraq may now prove more complicated, more dangerous—and suddenly even more imperative. The toppling of Hussein’s regime was supposed to make the world a safer place, yet Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have not materialized. If they exist—and I will not venture to suppose that they don’t—what is to stop them now from ending up in the hands of terrorists, who prior to Hussein’s removal remained at cross-purposes to the regime’s stated goals...