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...shipping bulk quantities of freshwater between distant points and distributing it to customers has so far stumped some major would-be players. For example, Azurix, a water-retailing company and a subsidiary of the energy multinational Enron, is struggling. "Enron thought it could use its expertise as a commodity trader to market water like energy," says Debra Coy, a water analyst with Charles Schwab. "But water is more complex politically...
...shape executives should restructure their physique by using the same techniques that have made them successful in business. That's the thesis of The Business Plan for the Body, a summer best seller. Author Jim Karas is a Wharton grad and former options trader and money manager who now works as a $10,000-a-week fitness consultant based in Chicago. He advises dieters to approach weight loss as a business with a twist--you want to spend more than you take in. Think of calories eaten as revenue and calories burned by exercise as expenditures, he writes. Publicly announce...
...Bangkok where he said Thailand would reduce dependence on exports and look inward to solve its economic woes; then seeming to backtrack at the May FORTUNE Global Forum in Hong Kong where he pledged to keep Thailand's economy open. Now he insists he has always been a free trader, but that he wants to promote policies that encourage efficient deployment of domestic capital, to close what he sees as a gap between foreign producers and Thai consumers. To that end, his economic advisers have promoted a policy of higher interest rates, insisting (heretically, to Westerners used to Keynesian pump...
...night and play music. But our troops are disciplined." Still, in the world's poorest country, women reportedly fight over who gets to sleep with Oladipo's troops. "The RUF told the girls if they fight for the Nigerians they will be flogged," says Noah Timbo, a Makeni trader. "But who do you think has the dollars?" Aware of the dangers, the U.N. says its peacekeeping missions will each now have an office to campaign against aids. Soldiers are supplied with 20 condoms a month, "though they can have more if they want," says Hirut Befecadu, the HIV/AIDS coordinator...
With a career growing, Puryear, 60, has done a number of public art projects in recent years. The latest (still in design) is for the state of Illinois, commemorating the first pioneer to settle in what eventually became Chicago: a fur trader named Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable, (1745-1818). Little is known about Du Sable except that (through his mother's Haitian ancestry) he was black. This became a matter of some importance to the city's black community, and Puryear, who lived in Chicago in the 1980s, has been approached about a possible monument to its obscure founder...