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...enough to elicit a pill or much alarm. But when he went to see Dr. Ting Choon Meng, the Singapore general practitioner decided to monitor Ho's blood pressure with a black plastic wristwatch he had designed and named the BPro. The device, worn for 24 hours, revealed a wave pattern showing how fast and hard his heart was beating, as well as worrying patterns in Ho's pressure. Ting put Ho on blood-pressure- lowering medicine...
...trade deficit. The trade gap with China is more than $100 billion. Naim called the current rate of $1 to 8.3 yuan "the world's most dangerous number." At issue, he said, is whether it will change in an orderly manner "or suddenly, surprisingly, and unleashing a wave of instability...
...other fearsome exchange rate, of course, is between the euro and the dollar. The euro has taken the brunt of the dollar's depreciation--the greenback has dropped more than 30% against the euro over the past two years. Naim foresees U.S. competitors grabbing European market share "and a wave of European companies investing in the U.S., where they'll find companies 30% cheaper." Blanque calculates that each 5% appreciation of the euro against all currencies translates into a loss of European-GDP growth...
These days most broadband subscribers use either a modem from their cable company or a digital subscriber line (DSL) from their phone company. The first wave of BPL roll-outs doesn't pose much of a threat to the Comcasts and Verizons of the industry, which boast millions of customers and have been selling high-speed access since the late '90s. Some 22 million U.S. households already subscribe to a broadband service, according to Forrester Research analyst Jed Kolko, making it one of the biggest hits of the digital...
...history that Brooks likes to wave around, there is one chapter it prefers to ignore: the demise of corporate sibling Casual Corner. After early success at reviving the chain, Del Vecchio lost control of the enterprise, which he wound up selling to a liquidator in 2005. "You have to look at his record," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of retail consultancy and investment bank Davidowitz & Associates. "It's been, shall we say, mixed...