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...FRIENDLY CITIES Environmental group Zero Population Growth has issued a report grading 239 U.S. cities on the quality of life they provide children. The study looked at access to quality health care, public safety, education and environmental cleanliness, as well as park acres per 1,000 persons and library circulation per child. The group gave its No. 1 ranking to Portland, Ore. The full report can be viewed at www.kidfriendlycities.org/2001/...
...turgid trading summer and brings the real money back from the Hamptons and into play. July factory orders and the Chicago Purchasing Managers' manufacturing report for August are expected to show that sector in continuing decline, though there's some hope that the trend is headed back up to zero after last week's durable goods number. Dare we look for another Friday pop? Well, on a day likely to be peppered with statistics showing this August to be the worst for equities since 1992, pie-eyed optimism should be at a premium. The bond markets have it right - they...
...Okinawa, like the main island--precisely for its slice of red, white and blue. The biggest draws, especially for Japanese women, are the real live Americans. Amejo is local slang for girls who love Americans, but amejo can be found anywhere in Japan where Americans hang out. However, ground zero for amejo and their kokujo subculture is Okinawa...
...backers pulled out and his bank cut off credit. The company was finished. He didn't even have his name to himself: Paul Harris Stores, a women's retailer in Indianapolis, purchased the J. Peterman assets in a court-ordered sale. "I came out of the bankruptcy with zero," Peterman recalls, "and not only zero in equity, but with hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. I was in no financial condition to do anything...
...summer, are leveling off. Unemployment is essentially stuck at 4.5 percent. Manufacturing has been firmly in the tank for almost a year, and Wall Street doesn?t seem to be going anywhere at all. The economy is resolutely limping along at what appears to be just above zero growth, just like it has since January...