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Most of the people who died on 9/11 had no choice. They were above the impact zone of the planes and could not find a way out. But investigators are only now beginning to understand the actions and psychology of the thousands who had a chance to escape. The people who made it out of the World Trade Center, for example, waited an average of 6 min. before heading downstairs, according to a new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) study drawn from interviews with nearly 900 survivors. But the range was enormous. Why did certain people leave immediately...
...Western investors' feelings about the country's business climate. The Russian economy is powering ahead, propelled by the high price of oil, its key export. Growth exceeded 7% in each of the past two years and is expected to be about 6% this year, more than triple the euro-zone average. Many Russians are still poor and live in wretched conditions, but on the whole, household income is up and, especially in big cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg, people are ready to splurge. The spending boom is creating a merger wave in sectors as varied as banking, brewing...
...Berlusconi has tried to satisfy these divergent interests by giving something to everyone, including €6 billion in income tax cuts along with increases in public spending. Result: a growing budget shortfall, which the European Commission warns will equal 3.6% of Italy's GDP in 2005, well above euro-zone limits. "Berlusconi wanted to be like Bush, pursuing an expansionist policy by running a deficit," says opposition MP Enrico Letta. Having patched over coalition differences, the PM is playing it safe - he's stopped calling for income tax cuts, and though he dare not renounce the League's federalist goals...
...City's Plaza Hotel. The group agreed that the dollar was too powerful and tacitly decided to depress its value by selling dollars and buying other currencies. Robert Hormats, former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, believes that without saying so, the Treasury Department is eyeing a target zone for the dollar. Says he: "The U.S. changed its policy at the Plaza and didn't announce it formally...
Even when the Crimson created chances in its offensive zone, it failed to convert as Princeton began to run away with the contest...