Word: zero
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...neighborhood is a far sight better off than it was when the cries of "Burn, baby, burn!" died down. Several hundred units of government-subsidized housing dot the neighborhood, replacing some of the vacant lots left after the rioting. The intersection of 103rd Street and Compton Avenue, ground zero in 1965, could be Anywhere U.S.A. The sprawling Watts Health Center dominates one corner and a new post office the other. Across the street is a shopping center with a supermarket, a savings and loan office and several apparel shops. There is no graffiti and little crime in the nine-month...
...chairman of the Space Science and Applications subcommittee. His special assignment during the five-day flight will be to grow crystals in space for cancer research. But first he will have to learn to be a bit more careful. Despite warnings about the disorientation he would feel during simulated zero-gravity training on a plane, Nelson did what came naturally. "I used to think how it would be great to push off and sail through the air," he says ruefully. "So I did and crashed into the ceiling." --By Guy D. Garcia
...cities across China. It had revenues last year of more than $930 million. If his firm grows as it has over the past decade, Vanke in another 10 years could become the world's largest housing provider. Sixty percent of urban Chinese own their homes, up from practically zero when Wang started. And Shenzhen, that sleepy town where Wang, 54, made his base? It's a booming metropolis of 12 million people--one of dozens of cities that have sprouted across the nation seemingly overnight. "You blink in China, and another building goes up," says Wang. --By Hannah Beech/ Shanghai...
...same rate, for example. "It's no surprise that [monetary union] is not optimal for all countries. That was always going to be the case," says Ian Stewart, chief European economist at Merrill Lynch in London. Still, he adds, the probability of the euro's collapsing "is greater than zero. This monetary union doesn't yet have the characteristics of all other durable monetary unions: that they developed into a political union." Switching to a political union with a fully federal government would make it all but impossible for a European country to drop the single currency. That possibility...
Chung, 67, has spent six years hammering that zero-defects message into the heads of Hyundai's employees, and the result has been one of the most surprising turnabouts in automotive history. A few years ago, Hyundai, South Korea's largest car manufacturer, was a synonym for shoddy. Seoul was the only place in the world where you were likely to see large numbers of its cars on the street. Today the company's line of pleasantly stylish, relatively inexpensive and certifiably reliable sedans and sport-utility vehicles is tailgating the industry's best-known brands in several prime markets...