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...cover story reported how the spending power of China's shoppers is helping to keep the global economy buoyant. But some readers warn that consumerism is taking a toll on the country's culture...
...Starbucks, the music foray has some risks. While selling CDs will boost revenues--in April, same-store sales were up a healthy 9% over a year earlier--some analysts warn that the media bars may be a distraction. In the 1990s, Starbucks jumped into the magazine business and dotcom investments with disappointing results...
...neighbor, acquiescing to Syria's domination of Lebanese politics as the price of Syria's role in ending Lebanon's 15-year civil war. But by last summer Assad suspected that Hariri was behind an international campaign to end Syria's occupation of Lebanon, and so he decided to warn Hariri not to oppose Syrian plans to reassert its influence. In an exchange Hariri later recounted to associates and friends interviewed by TIME, he protested, telling Assad, "I have been a friend of Syria for 20 years," to which Assad replied coldly, "I have only known you for four years...
There are, however, a few rules of thumb to keep in mind. Recent studies have taught exercise physiologists a lot about what combinations of physical activities work best at different ages. But the same physiologists also warn that you shouldn't get so hung up on the new advice that you abandon your old routines. "Anything is better than nothing," says Wendy Kohrt, a professor of medicine at the Center on Aging at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. "Whatever you will do to remain physically active is what I suggest...
...might be when Democrats invoked an obscure procedural rule to cancel all committee meetings, where the bulk of Senate business gets done. They have also threatened to require full Senate votes for even the most mundane business, a move that could put the brakes on the G.O.P. agenda. Democrats warn they will turn to another little-used rule to circumvent committees entirely, so that their own priorities can move directly to the Senate agenda. That way, if the Republicans want to move to legislation blocking asbestos-related lawsuits, for instance, they might first have to vote to shelve a Democratic...