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...economic rot is striking deep into the flagship industries of steel and electronics. Hitachi has announced its first annual loss since the end of the Second World War -- about three quarters of a billion dolllars -- and it's cutting 4,000 jobs. Did somebody say "lifetime employment"? Meanwhile, steelmaker Toa, sagging under some $2 billion in debt, is reported to be pursuing a liquidation program. It would be the largest Japanese manufacturer ever to fail...
Adjusting to life at Harvard can be difficultfor anyone, but students who went to all-women'shigh schools say their adjustment was not just toa new school...
DIED. EDWIN ROSARIO, 34, troubled boxer; of acute pulmonary edema that may have been caused by drugs; in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. Thrice world lightweight champion, Rosario was brought low by cocaine abuse in the early 1990s...
George Washington had his cherry tree, Abe Lincoln his log cabin and Newt Gingrich -- according toa new inspirational tract available at bookstores everywhere-- had French inflation. The House Speaker's controversial book, "To Renew America," which went on sale today, is full of revelations, says TIME Daily's Robertson Barrett. Among them: When Newt's military dad was stationed in France, sky-high French inflation taught a 13-year-old Gingrich that "when a government cheats its own people by inflating the currency rather than facing tough political decisions, it is inviting trouble." On the return trip to America...
...forward, its immediate impact is very limited, saysTIME Science writer Christine Gorman. "This gene is only for a very rare form of the disease. But there are a number of genes that cause what is lumped together as Alzheimer's. What researchers hope is that this discovery will lead toa general understanding of all the factors involved in the disease...