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But there's a rub. Americans are more tied to the stock market than ever, and most of their holdings are of large U.S.-based companies. As the euro slides, so does the profit picture at those kinds of companies. Why? They do business across the globe. When the foreign...
WIRELESS WORRIES Still wondering what that cell phone is doing to your brain? There's no convincing evidence yet it's doing much of anything, but still the Cellular Telephone Industry Association is requiring manufacturers to disclose how much of a cell phone's radiation may be absorbed by the...
Still, Bashar has positioned himself as more reformer than strongman. As president of Syria's computer society, he has recruited technocrats to help broaden Syria's cyber horizon--this in a country where only 2,000 people are officially allowed access to the Internet. (King Abdullah of Jordan, who knows...
The family name, Sonnenschein, translates as Sunshine, and its bearers at first prosper in turn-of-the-20th-century Budapest, selling an herbal tonic with that cheerful word emblazoned on the bottles. But they are Jews in an endemically anti-Semitic society. By the end of Istvan Szabo's three...
But some staff say Mayer's mantra translates into empty rhetoric. "They talk a lot about accountability, trust and respect--but they don't practice what they preach," says one manager who recently left HUDS, but asked not to be identified.