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...anger of World War II veterans and others who knew what they were talking about descended upon the Smithsonian. The curators produced a revised script earlier in the summer and last week a third try, which finally puts Hiroshima and Nagasaki into the historical context of Japanese aggression and its many victims and of a long and vastly destructive...
...between 10% to 25% over the past five years," he says. "But what is more interesting to note is the areas that have emerged as the preferred destinations. In the past, Europe was the place students automatically gravitated to; now people are saying Europe is the past and the Third World is the future. More people are going abroad to work because there are no jobs here that are interesting...
...jump from just three years back, when the nation was "weak or losing badly" in one-third of 94 critical technologies driving the economy, according to the Council on Competitiveness.TWENTY DEAD EVERY MINUTE? By 2020 the number of smoking-related deaths will jump 200%, to 10 million, according to an analysis of the smoking trends in over 45 countries. The findings, which will be released next week in a book sponsored by Britain's Imperial Cancer Research Fund, the World Health Organization and the American Cancer Society, indicate that 26 years from now, smoking will account for one death every...
...Sawgrass Mills near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which at 2.2 million sq. ft. claims to be "the world's largest outlet mall," a third of the 17.5 million annual visitors are foreign tourists. On a typical summer day 13 busloads arrive, spending an average of $200 to $300 a person in as little as 90 minutes. Tours are met by trilingual greeters who hand out shopping bags. The mall provides a foreign-currency exchange counter for anyone who needs more money fast. Says Jay Santos, vice president of ACC Tours, which shepherds 100,000 international visitors a year: "We have...
Negotiations between striking baseball players and team owners broke off acrimoniously with no timetable for future talks, further dimming prospects for resumption of play. As the stalemate entered a third week, neither side showed flexibility on the most divisive issue, which is a proposed cap on players' salaries. As the grown-ups squabbled, kids could at least watch the Little League World Series final between Venezuela...