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Social and money equality don't travel together. Kaus's data suggest that money equality increased greatly between around 1950 and 1973, and then slipped back slightly after 1973. Yet between 1950 and 1984 social equality nosedived...
Next, Gore will travel across the Charles River to Thinking Machines, an East Cambridge computer company. Thinking Machines designs, manufactures and sells some of the world's fastest supercomputers...
When businesses choose celebrities to endorse their products, they generally opt for world-class sports figures or gorgeous starlets. But a travel-industry ad campaign now airing on Japanese television may prove that graying world leaders of debatable sex appeal can sell with all the pizazz of a Vanna White. Developed by Go*USA, a tourism-industry trade group, the commercial features none other than President George Bush promoting the U.S. as a vacation paradise. Over images of rolling lawns and sandy beaches, Bush touts Hawaii, homegrown Dixieland jazz and, in an endearingly shameless display of personal preference, the wonders...
...appeared on British television earlier this year and was a resounding success. As a result, Go*USA decided to export the commercial to Japan. Last year, taking advantage of a weak dollar, 3.3 million Japanese visitors flocked to the States, creating a near $10 billion U.S. trade surplus in travel and tourism with Japan alone. The travel business and the Commerce Department hope the Bush ad will lure even greater numbers of big spenders to American shores...
...opulent array of 274 possessions of the militarily ruthless yet artistically keen Turks who ruled a wedge of Europe and Asia for nearly six centuries. Gathered from the legendary Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul and other Ottoman collections, it is the largest show of Ottoman art ever to travel beyond Turkey's borders...