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Meanwhile, Wal-Mart is looking for other markets to conquer. It would like to offer low-cost checking and savings accounts and other financial services in branches, managed by a division of Canada's Toronto Dominion Bank but staffed at least partly by Wal-Mart employees. Wal-Mart figures that perhaps 20% of its customers do not have bank accounts. It is trying to work its way around U.S. banking regulations that currently forbid entities such as retailers from running banks. That's where partner TD comes in. Who knows? Maybe K Mart will apply for a loan...
...nations with the least respect for women's rights are also the most stagnant in every other way. There will be no future for the Middle East beyond the perpetuation of its present agonies unless there is a fundamental revolution in its approach to gender and power. EDWARD FOX Toronto...
...million in the field, has now more than doubled its life-sciences investments. Says the initiative's general manager, Carol Kovac: "Partnering with companies in proteomics and genomics is essential for our success." Big Blue has invested $10 million in MDS Proteomics, a subsidiary of MDS, based in Toronto, Canada, and recently announced a collaboration with LION. It is also building what will be the world's fastest supercomputer, Blue Gene, to work out the complex rules by which proteins assume their shapes...
...ironic that after converting the Europeans--and most of the rest of the world, for that matter--to the U.S. lifestyle of focusing on consumerism, Americans are now taking time out to smell the roses. WILLIAM BEDFORD Toronto...
...history, she placed in stores products that were competitive with other big brands. She enlisted as an Avon lady, listening to customers and developing incentive and recruiting programs that revitalized the sales force. And as China opens wider to trade, Jung, 42, has a big advantage: though born in Toronto, she learned Mandarin from her parents...